Panorama: Colombian Highlights

Colombian audiovisual experimentation is booming and the exhibition shows the highlights that artists have been developing, stimulated by global events such as the pandemic, police repression, and the awakening of consciousness to the understanding of the other and their bodies, it is clear the maturity that is developing in Colombian artists who create bridges between the world of film production and other artistic expressions. 

Method for a Portrait

Director: Daniela Jiménez Guzmán
Colombia, 2014, 4', HDD, color
Spanish with Turkish subtitles

By the time I met two years of living there I started to see her through a lens. After having inhabited another nine apartments, how to record the one that felt my house? 

Deep Blue

Director: Sebastian Wiedemann
Colombia, 2020, 7', HDD, color
No Dialogue 

Springs and Apneas between Worlds to resist and re-exist the pandemic.

84

Director: Daniel Cortés
Colombia, 2020, 13', HDD, color
Spanish with Turkish subtitles

Today in Colombia, the last peace agreement shatters to pieces and violence takes over the country. Two films shot in 1984, lost for more than thirty years, come to light together. 84 drags the viewer between fiction and documentary through this cursed reels, into a divided country, between cities and countryside, condemned by a dark omen of repetition.

Redemption

Director: Los Ex Colectivo
Colombia, 2020, 18', HDD, color
No Dialogue 

Using archive footage, Redemption superimposes, intercalates, shifts and remixes a video collection where demonstrations, war bombings, industrial production, agricultural work, royal gardens, natural processes, supermarkets and gun shops illustrate the crossroads between life and death to which the search of Eden subjects us. 

Exquisite Beginnings

Director: Ricardo Pinzón
Colombia, 2019, 4', HDD, color
Spanish with Turkish subtitles 

A visual rhythmic essay on Colombia that touches us

Vulvas

Director: Huaira Paloma Lizarralde
Colombia, 2019, 9', HDD, color
No Dialogue

Vulvas, as their name indicated is a visual trip through the folds, shapes, volumes and body fluids. Bodies with Vulvas tired of living in the fear, silence, and taboo of being themselves. 

Totem Song

Director: Walter Escamilla
Colombia, 2020, 4', HDD, color
No Dialogue

Totem Song is an experimental documentary film about street musicians in Europe. It parts from the idea of building an audiovisual mash-up combining and remixing different styles of beats, melodies, sounds and images that were recorded over my first trip to Europe in 2018. Here, totem is rhythm and melody. Totem are the patterns that people create over sound and movement while exploring the streets and holy places. As a visitor, for me these patterns represent the ritual of exposing oneself to European culture, absorbing all the richness in form and the infinite flow of human expression.