MINEFIELD is a project that brings together Argentinean and British soldiers who fought on opposite sides in the Falklands/Malvinar war in 1982 to explore what says in their memory thirty-four years later.
The Malvinas/ Falkland Islands located 464 kilometres from Argentine Patagonia have been a disputed territory for centuries. The war of 1982, in which Argentina tried to regain control of the islands, had an enormous political impact: for Argentina it was a defeat that propelled the fall of the military regime; for England it was a triumph that saved the premiership of Margaret Thatcher. And for the islanders it was the way to obtain full British citizenship and a new constitution. And what happened to the soldiers? Some of them got medals, and some were forgotten. Some of them continue in the forces and others started new lives as psychologists, musicians, teachers, security guards. Today the only thing they haven in common is that they are all veterans. But what is a veteran? A survivor, a hero, a madman? The project challenges the word itself confronting the memories of former enemies.
MINEFIELD digs deep into the personal impact of war and it’s also an exploration of the representation of war, of how this experience becomes narrative, and about the relation between fiction and History.
