German Fountain
Following the Colonization Law of 1845,
the Chilean state promoted German immigration
to the territories of Valdivia, Osorno, and Llanquihue.
Artisans, farmers, and professionals
colonized ancestral Mapuche lands.
In 1912, the German community donated the monument FUENTE ALEMANA to the Chilean state in gratitude for its welcome and in
commemoration of the 100 years of the republic of Chile.
The film explores its transformation at two different historical moments: 2004 and 2019.
In 2004, families from marginalized neighborhoods of Santiago, defying all prohibitions, appropriated the fountain, transforming its original meaning.
In October 2019, the social uprising turned it into a platform for protest: a collective cry for social justice, memory, and urgent transformation.
Jeannette Muñoz is a chilean artist and filmmaker based in Zurich whose work embraces openness and inconclusion, weaving together heterogeneous fragments across film, performance, installationand long-term projects such as Puchuncaví and Envíos. Migrating between contexts, her practice reflects on ancestry, belonging, and the politics of visibility, probing how images—as strata of the natural world —resist functionalization. Working primarily with 16mm film, she explores montage as a site of poetic and political tension. Her films have been screened at the FIC Valdivia FF Chile, FICUNAM Ciudad de México, EXIS Seoul, Tate Modern London, Belvedere Wien, S8 Mostra de Cinema Periférico A Coruña, Pesaro FF in Italy, Osnabrück FF, among others. Her work has been exhibited at Helmhaus Zürich, La Rada Locarno, Kunstmuseum Winterthur.
PUCHUNCAVI(2014-ongoing)
ENVIOS(2005-Ongoing)
VILLATALLA (2011)
STRATA OF NATURAL HISTORY(2012)
FUENTE ALEMANA (2025)