The imprint / La huella
The Peruvian civil war lasted two decades (1980-2000) and cost the lives of 69,000 people, 70 percent of whom belonged to the Quechua-speaking rural population. Terrible crimes were committed not only by the left-wing rebel groups, but also by the military and the police. In addition to its final report, Peru’s Reconciliation Commission compiled an archive of 1500 photographs, on which the film draws. Using selected photographs the director develops a poetic narrative, which is augmented by statements from the forensic specialist José Pablo Baraybar. This is a film about the power of images waiting to be viewed, but which later continue to resurface, as if they were part of one’s own memory.
Authors:
- Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski
Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski, born in 1981 in Lima, lives and works between Lima and Paris. She has taken multiple paths, beginning in mise-en-scène and dance, then moving into theater, shifting later to performance, and currently establishing herself in video and film. Her work has been presented among others at the biennial VideoAKT-Festival Loop Barcelona, at Encounters of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in Buenos Aires and Lima, at the 59th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, the Courtisane Festival in Ghent, L'Alternativa Festival Independent de Barcelona, at the 25th Rencontres de cinéma latino de Toulouse.
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Screenings:
- 19.10.2013, 17:00, Kino Zamek, European Competition, block 4