Season 1, Gen X — Episode 31 — No (2012)

Patreon here.This week, DP heads south. South to Chile — a nation which ended its military junta and dictatorship through an advertising-powered referendum just as the Cold War was ending. Could there be material that's more End of History in its politics?Chilean director Pablo Larraín seemed to think not — producing his 2012 feature No — half as a celebration of the 1988 presidential referendum's ousting of General Pinochet, and half as a satirical send-up of the growth of political communications through advertising.What happens when politics is stripped of its substance and rendered as a performative set of vibes?Find out in today's episode.