Colombia
44 Archival description results for Colombia
The word is like the fire that fell from the sky in the shape of Garizi (the tuber of power), which our ancestors once ate. It's not tangible, it can't bee seen, it is simply an exhalation (Jafaiki). Odo Buijidima.
UntitledThe earth, its fruits, its particular places and the traditional cultural practices of its people are sacred, material and immaterial assets shared by all. Food sovereignty is at the heart of the Cauca peasant women's and indigenous communities' peaceful struggle to achieve overall sovereignty. Barter is still one of their strategies.
UntitledOn December 18, 2005, Evo Morales was elected President of Bolivia. For the first time in history, an Indian reached a position of power in the country. The planters in the Chapare region have consolidated a sound organisation in support of planting coca leaf, a sacred plant of great cultural and economic relevance. Today, the coca planters participate actively in the national political arena, where the values of traditional native culture and contemporary social movements converge.
UntitledIn a Colombian state, a distressed group of indigenous people under the white man pressure (army, paramilitary and guerrilla), meet together to ask the "bunachi" (white man) to live them alone.
Untitled“Entre Manos” follows a shipment of marihuana from the moment it enters the city until it reaches its consumers. A document that captures the reality of the people who make their living from this production chain in the city, made from shots of their hands while they work and tell us about their daily struggles.
UntitledWhen night falls, the Colombian countryside undergoes a transformation. Danger lurks in the dark. Carmen, a peasant woman in her fifties, knows it well. This film finds the right distance to absorb her tale of a tormented life, while drawing the audience into the harsh world of the Colombian peasant through one of its most fascinating aspects: the oral tradition.
UntitledA map of healing territories, Brooklyn (New York) - Bogota (Colombia). Conversations with Hector Malabé, a homeless Puerto Rican from Greenpoint, and the spiritual properties of lemon sung by an anonymous afroamerican of the Colombian caribbean coast.
A succession of mysteries are repeatedly ordered and observed. A ritual for creating meaning. Dreaming, a daily exercise in the free interpretation of reality.
Untitled29/08/05. Patio Bonito, Bogota's outsiders suburbs. 300 displaced families squat derelict flats, claiming the access to fundamental rights.