OFFICIAL PROGRAM
WITH THE SUPPORT OF
L ibertad
y O r de n
Embajada de Colombia en Alemania
PANOR AMA COLOMBIA TEAM 2018 Jose Luis Urriago Novoa
Julian Santana
Kelly Abuchaibe
Director
Videoart Program
Protocol
Fernando Huerta
Gisela Zarate Tobón
Fernando Huerta
Operations Manager
Mauricio Torres
Joshua Dullroy
Lorena Novoa
Karl Barskat
Marketing Department
Mobile Kino Support
Cristian León Buitrago Design & Media Manager
Jaime E Manrique Felipe Montoya Short Films Program –Bogoshorts World Tour–
& Press Office
Valery Rojas Caro Head Press & Social Media
Tanja Morgner
Felipe Montoya Transport Coordinator Laboratorios Black Velvet Colombia
Operations
SPECIAL THANKS TO Embajada de Colombia en Alemania, Embajadora de Colombia en Alemania su excelencia María Elvira Pombo Holguín, Santiago Medina, Marta Tarrago Esteve, Consulado de Colombia en Berlin, Cónsul Martha Patricia Medina González, Proimágenes Colombia, Laboratorios Black Velvet, Timothy Grossman, Roberta Bianchini, Han Yu, Carolina Muñoz, Carolina Padilla Unigarro, Gustavo Vélez, Camilo Montero Daza, Hebert Asprilla, Sabina Rösch, Janina Geigulat, Anna Preußinger, Saul Lozano, Bibiana Cavanzo, Yalfa Ximena Castillo, Jorge Ariza, Sonia Villegas Carolina Betancourt Franco, Gustavo Zschommler, Stephanie Mendes Candido, Vilma Schäfer, Eugenia Nuñez, Carolin Niermann, Daria Tsareva-Lenskaya, Katherine León García, Diana Plaza, Justyna Kuszneruk, Emilia Juliana Huerta, to Gigi Lionza, Discos Coleto, Marquinho, Zafa & Panterra for filling this universe with music, and to all the Unicorns. www.panoramacolombia.com / facebook: Panorama Colombia / panoramakolumbien@gmail.com
WE ARE DEDIC ATED TO THE ESTHETIC AL RICHNESS and thematic diversity
that inspires us from Colombian cinematography. We, the team of Panorama Colombia in partnership with Mobile Kino will proudly present from the 5th until the 8th of April 2018, the fourth version of Panorama Colombia, the Colombian Film Festival in Berlin. In recent years, improvements in security and peace as well as the rise of a clear economic leadership in Colombia, have encouraged significant growth to our cinematographic industry, allowing our country to create its own place in a global market for exhibition, and promote an open discussion about Colombia’s cinematography on an influential level. With more than 28 films produced in Colombia mostly in 2017, Panorama Colombia offers an original, selective and attractive program of films in several different formats, genres and productions, with the recent views of our cinematography. Our aim is to welcome Berliners, Germans and international audience, to become aware of the diversity and quality of authentic Colombian films, showing a whole new panorama of our cinematography. It is an honor for us to present to Berlin a program with the most outstanding movies produced in Colombia in the last years, structured with eight colombian productions as a part of the official selection 2018, two short film programs, a special documentary program, Colombia Bio by Colciencias and a video art and experimental film exhibition. Our selection will open space for the audience to create an own perspective. A personal, critical, reflexive and objective opinion about our cultural, political and economic situation and about our talents and the cinematographic growth. This is what we are doing at Panorama Colombia, creating and promoting new public spaces to spread and recognize the new Colombian cinematography throughout the world, because it takes only a sight to change your life. Bienvenidos a Panorama Colombia 2018.
OFFICIAL FILM SELEC TION 2018
SHORT FILMS SELECTION: D O C U M E N TA R Y
BAD LUCKY GOAT (El Día de la Cabra) Festival Opening Film
TOMADA (Taken)
PARIENTE (Guilty Men)
BESOS FRÍOS (Cold Kisses)
LA DEFENSA DEL DRAGÓN (The Dragon Defense)
LA VACA (The Cow)
YO, LUCAS (I, Lucas)
ELL@S
AMAZONA
LA MADRE DE LAS MADRES (The Mother of Mothers)
PACIENTE (Patient)
PSICOSIS
TRES ESCAPULARIOS (Three Scapulars) CIRO Y YO Festival Closing Film
SPECIAL PROGR AM: COLOMBIA BIO - COLCIENCIA S CHIRIBIQUETE. VIDEOGRAFÍA DE EXPEDICIÓN AL
SHORT FILMS SELECTION: FICTION LAS ACACIAS LA CASA DEL ÁRBOL (The Treehouse) MADRE (Mother) MENGUANTE (Waning) HASTA AQUÍ TODO VA BIEN (So Far, So Good) CLEMENTINE LA JAULA (The Cage)
CENTRO DEL MUNDO VICHADA, A LA CUSTODIA DE LA VIDA EL PEÑÓN LA TIERRA DEL AGUA ANDAKI, CAMINO DE VIDA TACARCUNA
COLOMBIAN VIDEOART PROGR A M THE WORLD’S HAPPIEST COUNTRY THE BODY IN DISSIDENCE. Body categories in the world’s happiest country
O F F I C I A L
F I L M
S E L E C T I O N
O P E N I N G
2 0 1 8
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BAD LUCKY GOAT
(E L D Í A D E L A C A B R A )
COLOMBIA , 2017. D: SA MIR OLIVEROS. C A ST: HONLENNY HUFFING TON, KIAR A HOWARD, ELKIN ROBINSON, 76 MIN, OmEnglU (CREOLE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLE S). After accidentally killing a bearded goat with their father’s truck, two incompatible siblings in their teenage years, embark on a journey of reconciliation. Corn and Rita must find a way to repair the truck in time to pick up the tourists that will be staying at their family’s hotel. As they struggle to find the means necessary to conceal the accident, the siblings will visit a butcher, rastafari drum makers, a pawn shop and even a witch doctor, in a 24-hour adventure around Port Paradise.
FESTIVAL OPENING SCREENING
SCREENINGS
Thursday 05.04.2018
20:00 hrs
Babylon 1
Saturday 07.04.2018
19:45 hrs
Babylon 2
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PARIENTE
(G U I LT Y M E N)
COLOMBIA , 2016. D: IVAN D. G AONA . C A ST: WILLING TON GORDILLO, HERIBERTO PAL ACIO, RENÉ DÍA Z C ALDERÓN, 115 MIN, OmEnglU (SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLE S). Mariana, Willington’s eternal love, is preparing her marriage with René, the cousin of her ex-boyfriend. While Willington tries to get her back, the rumour of a thief in town and a series of violent deaths that remind them of a fearful past, will endanger Mariana’s new family.
SCREENINGS
Saturday 07.04.2018
19:45 hrs
Babylon 1
Sunday 08.04.2018
20:00 hrs
Babylon 2
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2 0 1 8
LA DEFENSA DEL DRAGÓN
( T H E D R A G O N D E F E N S E)
COLOMBIA , 2016. D: NATALIA SANTA . C A ST: GONZ ALO DE SAG AR MINAG A , HERNAN MENDE Z, M ANUEL NAVARRO, 80 MIN, OmEnglU (SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLE S). Samuel, Joaquín and Marcos, are three old friends living their lives in downtown Bogotá. They spend their days between Lasker – the legendary chess club, The Caribbean Casino, and La Normanda – a traditional coffee shop. Samuel, 53, is a professional chess player that lives of betting on small matches he knows he will win. His best friend is Joaquín, 65, an accomplished watch-maker who’s about to lose the workshop he inherited from his father. And then there’s Marcos, 72, a Spanish homeopath devoted to finding a formula to win poker matches. These three men have found shelter in the safety of their routines, avoiding to facing up to their failures. But a time comes when they are confronted by reality and causes them to stagger.
SCREENINGS
Saturday 07.04.2018
18:15 hrs
Babylon 3
Sunday 08.04.2018
18:15 hrs
Babylon 1
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YO, LUCAS
(I , L U C A S)
COLOMBIA , 2017. D: LUC A S M ALDONADO. C A ST: LUC A S M ALDONADO, C A MIL A LOBOGUERRERO, M ATĂ?A S M ALDONADO, 71 MIN, OmEnglU (SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLE S). I may be a madman, a sick person. I meant to be brutally sincere. To my mom, to my dead father, and to myself. I was able to get my ex-girlfriends in bed to talk about me. I made a film about the forbidden, about my best friend who passed away, and I achieved slandering my image in the process. I made a film, I accomplished it. Is it worth while making films?
SCREENINGS
Friday 06.04.2018
22:15 hrs
Babylon 2
Saturday 07.04.2018
21:30 hrs
Babylon 2
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AMAZONA COLOMBIA , 2016. D: CL ARE WEISKOPF. C A ST: VALERIE GUARNIZO, CL ARE WEISKOPF, 82 MIN, OmEnglU (SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLE S). What makes someone a good mother? After the tragic death of her eldest daughter, Val left her kids and family behind and escaped into the Colombian jungle to search for her identity. Clare Weiskopf, the director of this film, was 11 years old at the time and couldn’t understand what her mother was looking for. Thirty years later, when she becomes pregnant, she decides to confront her mother, heal the wounds of the past and try to define motherhood on her own terms. She visits Val in her heavenly habitat in the Amazon region of Colombia and films her weaving bracelets in her timber hut, driving her moped to the market and cooking fish on a wood-burning stove. Why did Val hit the road when her two children needed her so badly?
SCREENING
Saturday 07.04.2018 9
18:00 hrs
Babylon 2
O F F I C I A L
F I L M
S E L E C T I O N
2 0 1 8
S P E C I A L
S C R E E N I N G
TRES ESCAPULARIOS
( T H R E E S C A P U L A R S)
COLOMBIA , 2015. D: FELIPE ALJURE. C A ST: ISABEL JIMENE Z, M AURICIO FLORE Z, K AREN G AVIRIA , AL M A ROSA M ARTINE Z, LUIS FERNANDO GIL , 118 MIN, OmEnglU (SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLE S). TRES ESCAPULARIOS is a film that talks about the act of killing. Two ideological killers, Nico and Lorena, have to follow the order of killing an ex-guerrilla militant lady, who’s declarations caused a bombing in a guerrilla camp in which many fighters died. Nico and Lorena meet in Santa Marta and they don’t like each other at first. He is from the urban guerrilla in Bogota, who has never killed and is heartbroken because of a love betrayal. She is a guerrilla militant from Santa Marta who has killed many times and lost both her boyfriend and unborn baby during the bombing on the guerrilla camp that was given away exguerrilla militant. She has many reasons to be full of hatred. Nico and Lorena’s relationship turn up into a wild event.
SPECIAL SCREENING
SCREENING
Sunday 08.04.2018 10
18:00 hrs
Babylon 3
O F F I C I A L
F I L M
S E L E C T I O N
2 0 1 8
PACIENTE (PAT I E N T ) COLOMBIA , 2016. D: JORGE C ABALLERO. C A ST: NUBIA M ARTINE Z, LEIDY JOHANA ORTEGON, 70 MIN, OmEnglU (SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLE S). A caring mother risks losing her daughter to an aggressive form of cancer. Observational and stripped of any sentimentality, PATIENT grows into a monumental indictment of the heartless bureaucracy that has Colombian health care in its grips. The camera films from three perspectives. One is a tripod at the end of a long white hospital corridor, a door to the right opening into the room where the daughter lies dying. The second follows the exhausted, limping mother, who time and again must trudge the endless corridors to pry life-saving medication from the system’s clutches, and spend hours in waiting rooms only to be sent back and forth once more. The third camera films the loving mother’s face in close-up, as she cares for her child, talks to her, moves her from place to place, or just keeps watch. And she does it day and night, because the system won’t provide for this kind of care. The director’s decision not to film the patient is an inspired one. Here, it’s the mother who’s the paciente.
SCREENINGS
Friday 06.04.2018
20:00 hrs
Babylon 3
Sunday 08.04.2018
16:15 hrs
Babylon 2
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C L O S I N G
F I L M
CIRO Y YO COLOMBIA , 2017. D: MIGUEL SAL A Z AR . C A ST: CIRO G ALINDO, E SNEIDER G ALINDO, 107 MIN, OmEnglU (SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLE S). In December 1996, during a trip I made to photograph Caño Cristales, John Galindo, my 14-yearold guide, drowned in front of me. After a long journey back into town, I had to tell his father, Ciro Galindo, that his son had drowned. Without knowing it, everything that happened that day sealed a friendship that continues today. Wherever Ciro’s gone, war has followed him. Displaced several times; his children recruited by the armies of war; his wife Anita, who died of sadness. Outside of the system, yet a victim of the system, Ciro has led an anonymous heroic struggle to live his life on his own terms. Through Ciro’s story, it is possible to understand Colombia’s history. Ciro is a prime witness, on the ground, of a war that seems distant and confusing. CIRO & ME recounts the journey of Ciro to meet his past, in a quest to reconstruct his life and build a future for himself and his son. Ciro’s is a journey into memory, seeking to give words to sorrow, a journey to recover his dignity. FESTIVAL CLOSING SCREENING
SCREENINGS
Friday 06.04.2018
20:15 hrs
Babylon 2
Sunday 08.04.2018
20:00 hrs
Babylon 1
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SHORT FILMS SELECTION “BOGOSHORTS” Selected Fiction and Documentary short films from the National Competition of the 15º Bogotá Short Film Festival - BOGOSHORTS, brought to Panorama Colombia Berlin by the BOGOSHORTS Movement, as part of the BOGOSHORTS world tour program.
BOGOSHORTS: FICTION
119 Min, OmEnglU (Spanish with English subtitles).
BOGOSHORTS: DOCUMENTARY
99 Min, OmEnglU (Spanish with English subtitles).
www.bogoshorts.com Tel. +57 1 2321857
Calle 35 Nr. 5 - 89
+57 1 2884919
La Casa del Cine
bogoshorts@lbv.co
Barrio La Merced
bogoshorts@gmail.com
Bogotá - Colombia
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S E L E C T I O N
S H O R T F I L M PR O G R A M : F I C T I O N
SCREENINGS
Thursday 06.04.2018
22:00 hrs
Babylon 1
Friday 06.04.2018
21:45 hrs
Babylon 3
Saturday 07.04.2018
16:00 hrs
Babylon 3
LAS ACACIAS COLOMBIA , 2017. D: SANTIAGO ALBERTO VARG A S PRIE TO. 31 MIN. In the middle of his lonely land, Marcos continues working and trying to fill the emptiness left by his missing daughter; fighting against
a
warfare
that
has
relentlessly invaded his calm.
LA CASA DEL ÁRBOL
( T H E T R E E H O U S E) COLOMBIA , FR ANCE, 2017. D: JUAN SEBA S TIÁN QUEBR ADA . 16 MIN. Today, Verónica moves in with Mateo. Is this the beginning or the end?
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MADRE
(M O T H E R )
SWEDEN, COLOMBIA , FR ANCE, 2016. D: SIMÓN ME SA SOTO. 14 MIN. 16 year-old Andrea leaves her neighborhood in the hills of Medellin to attend a downtown casting call for a porn film.
MENGUANTE
( W A N I N G)
COLOMBIA , 2017. D: MELISA Z APATA MONTOYA . 12 MIN. Negra, a young afro-descendant girl, arrives at her house near the sea with news that could change her life and Vieja’s one, her adoptive mother.
HASTA AQUÍ TODO VA BIEN
(S O FA R , S O G O O D)
COLOMBIA , 2017. D: ERNE S TO LOZ ANO REDONDO. 20 MIN. The daily life of a popular neighborhood in Bogotá is interrupted by a man threatening to commit suicide by jumping into the void. Echeverry, an old mariachi and Jacinto, a gambling addict, will bet the money they have to the man’s decision. 15
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PANORAMA COLOMBIA BERLIN
O F F I C I A L PR O G R A M 2018 Thur sday
Friday
05.04.2018 BABYLON 1
06.04.2018 BABYLON 2
BABYLON 3
BABYLON 1
14:00
15:00
16:00 VIDEOART PROGR AM
Free Entrance 17:00 hrs
17:00
18:00
CHIRIBIQUETE
European Premiere Colombia Bio Colciencias 18:00 hrs
19:00
20:00
BAD LUCKY GOAT
21:00
22:00
BOGOSHORTS: FICTION
22:00 hrs
18:00 hrs
PACIENTE
Opening FIlm
(El Día de la Cabra) 20:00 hrs
BOGOSHORTS: DOCUMENTARY
CIRO Y YO
(Patient) 20:00 hrs
20:15 hrs
YO LUCAS
(I, Lucas) 22:15 hrs
23:00
00:00
01:00 16
BOGOSHORTS: FICTION
21:45 hrs
PARIENTE
(Guilty Men) + EL PEÑÓN (Short film) 19:45 hrs
OFFICIAL FILM SELEC TION
SHORT FILM SELEC TION
COLOMBIA BIO - COLCIENCIA S
S aturday
Sunday
0 7. 0 4 . 2 0 1 8 BABYLON 2
08.04.2018 BABYLON 3
BABYLON 1
VIDEOART PROGR AM
Free Entrance 15:00 hrs
BABYLON 2
Free Entrance 15:15 hrs PACIENTE
(Patient) + VICHADA (Short film) 16:15 hrs
16:00 hrs
18:00 hrs
LA DEFENSA DEL DR AGÓN
(The Dragon Defense) + CHIRIBIQUETE (Short film) 18:15 hrs
LA DEFENSA DEL DR AGÓN
CIRO Y YO
20:00 hrs
YO LUCAS
(I, Lucas) + ANDAKI (Short film) 21:30 hrs
OFFICIAL FESTIVAL PARTY
23:00 hrs at GRETCHEN
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Special Screening: (Three Scapulars) 18:00 hrs
BAD LUCKY GOAT
Closing Film:
BOGOSHORTS: DOCUMENTARY
TRES ESCAPULARIOS
(The Dragon Defense) + TACARCUNA (Short film) 18:15 hrs
(El Día de la Cabra)
+ LA TIERR A DEL AGUA (Short film) 19:45 hrs
BABYLON 3
VIDEOART PROGR AM
BOGOSHORTS: FICTION
AMAZONA
VIDEOART PROGR A M
PARIENTE
(Guilty Men) 20:00 hrs
S H O R T
F I L M
S E L E C T I O N
CLEMENTINE COLOMBIA , 2017. D: JERÓNIMO SAR MIENTO. 20 MIN. Clementine, a British flight attendant in her mid-30’s, gets stranded in Bogotá for one night due to complications with her crew schedule. Her solitary routine in this foreign city reveals how her job and lifestyle have led her to a disconnection from her affective side. Just like the spacecraft also named Clementine, which never returned to Earth, she seems to wander.
LA JAULA
( T H E C A G E)
COLOMBIA , SWIT ZERL AND, BR A ZIL , 2016. D: LONY WELTER . 17 MIN. An old carpenter lives with his toddler grandchild in a little village. One day, his neighbor complains about the constant barking of the guardian dog he owns. Indifferent, the old carpenter pays no attention to the issue and goes on with his chores. But the neighbor’s annoyance increases, until he decides to put an end to it, on his own account.
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S H O R T F I L M PR O G R A M : D O C U M E N TA RY SCREENINGS
Friday 06.04.2018
18:00 hrs
Babylon 3
Sunday 08.04.2018
16:00 hrs
Babylon 3
TOMADA
( TA K E N)
COLOMBIA , 2016. D: M AURICIO LEIVA COCK . 26 MIN. Amongst the streets of La Macarena quarter in Bogotá, Colombia, sits an unfinished building. From the outside, it seems like an abandoned and corroded structure. Within it, however, a family from the coast has built their home. One brimming with life, as nature slowly reclaims the space as its own.
BESOS FRÍOS
(CO L D K I S S E S)
COLOMBIA , BELGIUM , 2016. D: NICOL Á S RINCÓN GILLE. 15 MIN. In Bogotá’s outskirts, young voices are echoing all around. Leonardo, Omar, Jaime, Estiven, Diego and so many others are still there, although murdered by the army 6 or 7 years ago. They call on their mothers and kiss them, their lips are as cool as ice. They are blessed souls looking after those whom they love dearly. 19
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LA VACA
( T H E CO W )
COLOMBIA , 2017. D: JUAN JIMÉNE Z. 13 MIN. Between fluids and shit, a cow gives birth to her calf, it teaches it to walk, eat and nurse. A cold morning the human appears and takes them out. The cow tries to put up resistance, but the effort is useless and now its destiny can be much worse.
ELL@S COLOMBIA , 2017. D: CÉ SAR G ARCÍA . 9 MIN. On December 30, the “Fight for Gender Equality” was held, as an initiative of the Mayor’s Office in Soledad to open new spaces for the LGBTQ community. Brandon San Juan and Brianys Romero clashed in the last performance of the night.
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LA MADRE DE LAS MADRES
(THE MOTHER
O F M O T H E R S) COLOMBIA , 2016. D: WIL SON AR ANGO. 14 MIN. Following the disappearance of her son, Teresita Gaviria searches
tirelessly
for
the
truth that will restore her life and allow her to overcome the pain experienced by hundreds of other Colombian mothers, also victims of violence. Together, they demand their sons be returned “Alive, free, and in peace�.
PSICOSIS COLOMBIA , 2017. D: SANTIAGO C ALLE CRUZ. 21 MIN. Steven Rivas, a young man from Palmira Valle, seeks through his music to express the emotions and ideas that awakens his environment. Prejudices, social pretensions and corruption are some of the main themes of his punk songs. 21
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COLCIENCIAS PROGRAM “COLOMBIA BIO”
Colombia Bio is a documentary series produced within the framework of scientific expeditions led by Colciencias. It takes place in some of the Colombian’s regions which suffered long decades of armed conflict. Diverse artistic views of important Colombian film directors are focused in biodiversity. The purpose is to present the country through the relationship between art and science. 6 documentaries, 6 filmmakers, 6 Colombia regions and a team of over 500 people, to produce an unprecedented documentary series.
SCREENINGS CHIRIBIQUE TE (FE ATURE) / EUROPE A N PREMIERE COLOMBI A BIO
Friday 06.04.2018
18:00 hrs
Babylon 2
CHIRIBIQUETE (SHORT) IN DEFENSA DEL DR AGÓN SCREENING
Saturday 07.04.2018
18:15 hrs
Babylon 3
EL PEÑÓN (SHORT) IN PARIENTE SCREENING
Saturday 07.04.2018
19:45 hrs
Babylon 1
L A TIERR A DEL AGUA (SHORT) IN BA D LUCK Y GOAT SCREENING
Saturday 07.04.2018
19:45 hrs
Babylon 2
ANDAKI, CAMINO DE LA VIDA (SHORT) IN YO, LUCAS SCREENING
Saturday 07.04.2018
21:30 hrs
Babylon 2
VICHADA (SHORT) IN PACIENTE SCREENING
Sunday 08.04.2018
16:15 hrs
Babylon 2
TAC A RCUN A (SHOR T) IN DEFENS A DEL DR AGÓN SCREENING
Sunday 08.04.2018
18:15 hrs
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Babylon 1
S P E C I A L
P R O G R A M :
C O L O M B I A
CHIRIBIQUETE
VIDEOGR AFÍA DE EXPEDICIÓN AL CENTRO DEL MUNDO COLOMBIA , 2017. D: C ARLOS ARTURO R A MÍRE Z. SHORT VERSION: 7 MIN, LONG VERSION: 82 MIN, OmEnglU (SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLE S). A forced landing caused by a storm led to a passionate scientist finding a paradise that he would end up devoting his life to. Today, 30 years later, he returns to the Chiribiquete Mountain Range, in the heart of the Amazon, to lead an expedition in which he is reunited with the tepuis, the oldest geological formations on the planet, and the rock art that make it a place of great archaeological interest. That return is narrated by a young director who faced adversity to bring a testimony that mixes both experiences, his and the scientist’s.
VICHADA,
A L A C U S T O D I A D E L A V I DA COLOMBIA , 2017. D: CL ARE WEISKOPF. SHORT VERSION: 7 MIN, OmEnglU (SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLE S). A reflection of famous scientist Alexander Von Humboldt on the mystique of an expedition, starts a journey of reflections on science through the exploration of the savannahs and gallery forests of Tomo River, which begins at the Meta department, crosses Vichada, and ends in Great Orinoco. This territory is a large biological corridor, not only between those departments, but also between Colombia and Venezuela, and the point of return of a group of biologists to the area they had been able to research until they had to leave it in the 80’s due to the armed conflict. 23
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EL PEÑÓN
COLOMBIA , 2016. D: OSC AR RUIZ NAVIA . SHORT VERSION: 7 MIN, OmEnglU (SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLE S). Located in the department of Santander, El Peñón is a place that, thanks to its geological conditions offers one of the most particular bio diversities of the country. A foreign scientist who devoted his life to the study of its caves, which are the oldest and largest in the country, and a group of scientists that explores their exterior penetrate this territory, while their inhabitants tell stories filled with silences that fluctuate between the splendor of the landscape in which they grew and the rigors of the violence they faced.
LA TIERRA DEL AGUA COLOMBIA , 2016. D: NICOL Á S ORDÓÑE Z. SHORT VERSION: 7 MIN, OmEnglU (SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLE S). On board of a ship of the Colombian Navy, a group of scientists enters Serrana Cay, one of the cays of the remote nature reserve of Sea Flower, which covers 0% of the Caribbean Sea, contains 77% of the coral reefs of Colombia, and constitutes the third largest coral barrier reef on the planet. With high-tech resources, they seek to find the nesting points of some turtle elusive vulnerable species, and plunge into the bottom of one of the most diverse seas in the Colombian Caribbean to understand the species that threatens it: the Lion fish.
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ANDAKI, CAMINO DE VIDA COLOMBIA , 2017. D: JUAN PABLO MÉNDE Z. SHORT VERSION: 7 MIN, OmEnglU (SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLE S). This documentary finds the best scenario for its reflections on concepts such as life, death and the path walked between the two. At the Conquest period, a group of indigenous people sought to reach the Amazon from the Andes, escaping the Spanish troops, and so it opened what is known today as the Andaki Path. In this territory, who experienced the war against Peru, the bloodiest harnessing of rubber and the quinine, and the horrors of armed conflict, a group of scientists and several locals establish a rich exchange of knowledge that demonstrates that science and traditional knowledge are complementary.
TACARCUNA
COLOMBIA , 2017. D: PATRICIA AYAL A . SHORT VERSION: 7 MIN, OmEnglU (SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLE S). Tacarcuna Hill is the highest point of the Darién Mountain Range, the mountain chain that divides the border between Colombia and Panama. Located in Chocó’s Urabá, it is a biological corridor for species that move between Central and South America, and concentrates all the richness derived from the cultural mix between its African and indigenous populations. A rested gaze takes us to a place full of noises and silences, in which a group of scientists makes an exploration that would not be possible without the ancestral knowledge of its inhabitants. 25
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KUR ATOR RE X PRESENTS
VIDEO “CAÑONAZOS” OF THE POSTCONFLICT. VOL 2. COLOMBIAN VIDEOART ON UTOPIA
& POST- CONFLIC T. 35 artist, 54 artworks
PROGR A M 1. THE WORLD’S H A P P I E S T CO U N T R Y. IN ADDITION TO THE PAR ADOX of the “world’s
the contradictory juxtaposition of indicators,
happiest country”, of the optimism, progress and
graphics, censuses and maps which not only
violation of human rights statistics, this year the
express the current presence of a post-conflict,
videoart program spreads out to other media like
but the amount of pre-conflicts and conflicts
photography, print, drawing and installation.
along the length and breadth of the colombian
Recalling the ideological utopias of a new,
territory: maps of land restitution; of nature, rural
brave and happy world: the democratic, the
and indigenous reserves; of wastelands and mega
communist, the capitalist, the “castrochavista”
productive territories; of forced displacement; of
(left-winger), the “uribista” (right-winger), the an-
the memories of the victims; of the drug traffic
archist, the fascist, or maybe messianic. In recent
routes; of new zones of democratic security; of
years, Colombia became spontaneously and then
tourism; of police enforcement, guerrilla and
again and again, according to the local media and
criminal gang presence; of gentrification; of hope
the “Global Barometer of Happiness, Optimism
and happiness.
and Hope”, the happiest country in the world: first
Rambling between triviality and seriousness,
place in 2013 and 2014 (WIN/Gallup), first place in
the journalistic work is capable of shaping a state
2016 (WIN/Gallup) and in 2018 became the second
of normality in which, beside the archetype of
in the ranking as Gallup agency published this
the “world’s happiest country” and the “Global
year, numbers that contrast with the most recent
Barometer of Happiness, Optimism and Hope”
World Happiness Report of the UN, which places
coexist, among others: the “America’s highest
the country in the 37th position.
rates of inequality”, “98% of impunity on human
Regardless
and
rights violations”, “60% of opencast gold mining
statistics,
industry in Colombia is illegal”, and “depression
the paradox of this ironic and apparently
in Colombia is higher than the average of the
harmless
world”.
methods
of
of
the
these
reliability, surveys
qualification
and
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The invitation that these artworks extend, is to
The exhibition will take place from April 5th to 12th in
question our sensible analyst view, which should
the Oval Room on the second floor of Babylon. There
ramble between the objective and the subjective,
will also be placed the full video art programs of this
between the science of “prediction of truth” and
year on the cinema screens.
the statistical margins of error. By Julian Santana
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Oscar Ardila, Fernando Arias, Felipe Barreiro, Juan Manuel Blanco, Camilo Bojacá, Elkin Calderón, Chócolo, Juan Pablo Diaz, Juan Manuel Echavarria, Santiago Echevery, Diego Sierra Enciso, Josefina Jacquín, Katherine León, Maria Leubro, Andrés Londoño, Ana María Millán, Ana Karina Moreno, Ricardo Moreno, Cristian Diaz Orejarena, Daniel Poveda, Esteban Rivera, Miguel Angel Rojas, Carol Sabbadini, Emilio Tarazona, Jorge Vaca, Juan de Dios Vargas, Ana Maria Villate, Tatyana Zambrano.
Elkin Calderón: “Libertalia tropical” – 2015
Esteban Rivera: “The Conflict” – 2011
(Libertalia tropical, Libelulas y caballitos,
Emilio Tarazona: “Paraneoplastic Syndromes”
Departamento de Juan Pablo, Die Toteninsel)
- 2014
(PHOTO ABOVE)
Tatyana Zambrano: “Vernissage Museo FARC-
Juan Manuel Echavarría: “Testigos de los
EP” – 2017, “Fellows, I AM IN CHARGE!” – 2016.
silencios” – 2013/2014 (Testigo invisible, Una lección, Darwin) Ana María Millán: “Doble faz” – 2017
SCREENING - FREE ENTRANCE
Miguel Angel Rojas: “Unas de Cal otras de Arena: Dos mundos” – 2014
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Juan Manuel Echavarría: “Bocas de ceniza” –
SCREENING - FREE ENTRANCE
2003/2004 (PHOTO ABOVE). Perspicax (Katherine León + Julián Santana):
Saturday 07.04.2018 15:00 hrs Babylon 3
“The World’s Happiest Country” - 2015, “5,4,3,2,1...” - 2017, “Nuevo paradigma” - 2016.
At the end of the program, an audiovisual project
The following videos will be shown continuously
created by the colombian artist Ricardo Moreno
on screens located in the Oval Room on the second
during the RRR (Residence - Resistance - Resil-
floor of Babylon:
ience) residency program in Berlin will also be Fernando Arias: “El país de los demás” – 2012.
shown. This version of the RRR residency program will be held in Berlin from March 19 to April 13, and
Santiago Echeverry: “No disparen prensa” – 2000
is an initiative of EL KRUCE projects in Bogotá in
Carol Sabbadini: “Tropicalidad” - 2016 Tatyana Zambrano: “Lanzamiento línea Jacobo
collaboration with Kunstrial e.V in Berlin.
Arenas” – 2017, “The Rehearsal - Rocky final speech” – 2017
P R O G R A M 2 . T H E B O DY IN DISSIDENCE B O D Y C AT E G O R I E S I N T H E W O R L D ’ S H A P P I E S T C O U N T R Y.
SINNER , COMMUNIS T, PAR ACO (paramilitary),
the other; perhaps as a utopia of the generalized
decent, poor, left-handed, facho (fascist), pop-
“false positive”. To the violent categorization of
ulist, conservative, farmer, liberal, male, rich,
the body in binary language, not that of com-
indio (indigenous), castro-chavista (left-winger),
puter language, but that of extreme polarization
tomboy, lesbian, straight, queer, political, police,
and the “bad” and “good” ideologies that extend
soldier, former guerrilla member…
throughout the social, cultural and political terri-
As a global phenomenon, the “utopia” of a hap-
tories; then it would be necessary to listen those
py world is still imposed by the anticivilization or
stories of the bodies that differ, of those other
disappearance of the dissident body, the body of
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tioning that binary structure of reality. What if we
from the self-designation of their own identity,
rather imagine the utopia of a “Queer post-con-
crossing and reconfiguring the stiff categories of
flict” or perhaps a Decolonial one?
sex, race, class, etc.
The artists in this video art program approach By Julian Santana
the body in its most honest and fair freedom, PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Fernando Arias, Santiago Echeverry, Mario Andrés Gonzalez, Daniela Maldonado Salamanca, Manu Mojito, Carlos Motta, Miguel Angel Rojas, Alba Cadena Roldan, Nadia Granados + Amber Bemak, Colectivo Zunga, Lady Zunga.
Fernando Arias: “Procura no ser” – 2’05’’ –
The following videos will be shown continuously
2013.
on screens located in the Oval Room on the second
Santiago Echeverry: Cabaret Projects – 2017
floor of Babylon:
(Cabaret: Bubba, Cabaret: Green room, Cabaret: Natasha, Cabaret: Frank) (PHOTO
Fernando Arias: Gay boy Senegal – 2014, Procura
ABOVE).
libertad – 1’15’’ – 2014.
Carlos Motta: “The Defeated” – 2016
Colectivo Zunga: “Ponencia de nalga” - 2013.
Miguel Angel Rojas: “Mirando la flor” – 2007,
Alba Cadena Roldan: “Prótesis patriarca” – 2016
“Corte en el ojo” – 2002.
Daniela Maldonado Salamanca: “Erecciones
Nadia Granados + Amber Bemak: “Umbrella
presidenciales” – 2017 Mario Andrés Gonzalez: “Yo maté a Rosita
Orgasm” – 2016 , “Borderhole” – 2017.
Alvirez” – 2016 Manu Mojito: “Brío – performance” – 2017 SCREENING - FREE ENTRANCE
Tribute to Lady Zunga.
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