Yarokamena
Synopsis
Yarokamena is a story told by Gerardo Sueche, councilor of the Uitoto peoples, going through filmic portraits of a delirious Amazon, invaded by technological ruins, dysfunctional antennas, ghost ships, and colonial ghosts housed in the oral memory of the survivors of this episode of exploitation and extractivism; using cinema as a new container for this destructive force.
Schedule
1st Screening
5 December 2023, 17:00 GMT+7
2nd Screening
8 December 2023, 13:00 GMT+7
Credits
Andrés Jurado
Artist, filmmaker, and producer. His work explores the intersections of experimental and expanded cinema, archives, counter-archives, and politics of memory. He is a co-director of La Vulcanizadora, a creative laboratory in cinema, visual arts, and expanded theater based in Bogotá, Colombia. He directed El Renacer del Carare (2020) and Yarokamena (2022) also a part of the Forensic Architecture Team in a research project.
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