Los Bunkers Board ‘The Last Witness,’ About Luis Poirot, a ‘Symbol of Latin American Front Line Photography’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Chile’s Los Bunkers, one of the most admired of Latin America’s rock bands, has signed on to score “The Last Witness” (“El Ultimo Testigo”), a doc feature portrait of Luis Poirot, a Chilean photographer who has snapped many key events and figures in the country’s history from Salvador Allende to the estallido outburst of social protests in 2019, and beyond.
Some of Poirot’s earliest photos, all black and white, capture Allende on his successful 1959 presidential campaign trail, Poirot appointed its official photographer.
He took illicit shots of Chile’s presidential Palacio de la Moneda days after Allende died there in a military coup d’etat, its windows gutted by Chilean Air Force strafing.
He also snapped Nobel prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda at his Isla Negra beachside home. Directed by Catalan documentarian-journalist Francesc Relea (“Serrat y Sabina: el símbolo y el cuate”), “The Last Witness” captures Poirot shooting bestselling novelist Isabel Allende (“The House of Spirits”), director Pablo Larrain (“Spencer,” “El Conde”) who has a camera in hand to take shots of Poirot, actor-theatre director Alfredo Castro, and Catalan singer-composer Joan Manuel Serrat, the voiceover recording comments made by them about Poirot.
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