Yarokamena [Short Film]
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| New York City | |
| Quad Cinema 34 West 13th Street |
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| Sunday, May 7, 2023 – 12:00 PM |
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| COUNTRY | COLOMBIA, PORTUGAL |
| YEAR | 2021 |
| DURATION | 21 min |
| LANGUAGE | Spanish/English subtitles |
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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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| DIRECTOR |
Andrés Jurado
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| SCRIPT | Andrés Jurado |
| PRODUCER | La Vulcanizadora S.A.S |
| EDITOR | Andrés Jurado |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER |
Andrés Jurado
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| CAST |
Gerardo Sueche Cañube
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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. |
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