Screening of Chilean music documentary (Heights of Machu Picchu) at Dar Al Assad for Culture and Arts

On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the Chilean musical band “Los Jaivas,” the musical documentary film “Heights of Machu Picchu,” a poem by the poet Pablo Neruda, was screened today in the Drama Theater at Dar Al-Assad for Culture and Arts, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and the Chilean Embassy in Damascus.

The screening of the film comes within the framework of celebrating the 60th anniversary of the creation of the band, which is considered one of Chile’s cultural symbols. It is filmed in the 1980s in the Machu Picchu region in Peru, and includes the playing of songs with the words of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and comments by the writer Mario Vargas Jossa, both of whom are Nobel Prize winners.

The film talked about this musical band, which was founded in 1963 by five young musicians,Today it is one of the most important musical groups in Chile that sought musical integration into Latin America.

The band performs different types of music, especially popular and rock music, and works to combine different types of music using traditional musical instruments with classical ones.

In his speech, the Chargé d’Affaires of the Chilean Embassy in Damascus, José Patricio Brickell, said: “Among the greatest things that can exist in a person’s life is music, poetry, story, and words”. He explained that the film, which refers to a return to the origins of Machu Picchu, the mysterious place, reflects the bonds of brotherhood between the peoples of Latin America, and its screening in Damascus aims to strengthen cultural relations between Syria and Chile.

He added: “Speaking about origin, the Syrians have a very rich experience in this field. They have Ugarit, Palmyra, and countless sacred places and sites that unite us as human beings on this planet. This is how human history was written, and for this reason man is what he is today”.

Souha Suleiman