Yarokamena [Short Film]

April 4, 2023
New York City
Quad Cinema 34 West 13th Street
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Sunday, May 7, 2023 – 12:00 PM

ABOUT


COUNTRY COLOMBIA, PORTUGAL
YEAR 2021
DURATION 21 min
LANGUAGE Spanish/English subtitles
SYNOPSIS

This is the story of Yarokamena, a Uitoto indigenous person who organized a resistance to rubber exploitation at the beginning of the 20th century in Casa Arana, Colombia. He invokes the spiritual and cosmic forces of war, releasing its destructive power from its container that ends up creating a spiral of betrayal and death. 

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CAST & CREDITS


DIRECTOR
Andrés Jurado
SCRIPT Andrés Jurado
PRODUCER La Vulcanizadora S.A.S
EDITOR Andrés Jurado
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Andrés Jurado
CAST
Gerardo Sueche Cañube

DIRECTOR’S BIO 


Artist Filmmaker and Producer (Colombia, 1980) his work explores the intersections between experimental and expanded cinema, archives, counter archives, contemporary art, propaganda, mosquitoes, aliens, the space race, and the incidences of those in the construction of contemporary narratives and politics.