This article examines the relationship between cinema and history, considering this support as a 'place of memory.' In the article the film A Espiral (1975), directed by Chris Marker and Armand Mattelart is analyzed. It is a documentary made with materials researched in archives and concerned with analyzing the Unidade Popular party in Chile. After the 1973 coup its makers intended to construct historical knowledge which could combat the vision that the dictatorship had 'normalized' the chaos in the country, denouncing that Salvador Allende's government had been the victim of a great boycott organized by the right. In this sense the production organizes a dossier based on the 'proof' found in archives.
cinema and history; archive film; Unidade Popular in Chile