Una película robada

It’s no sin to rob a thief. Camilo Restrepo makes this proverb his own, turning found footage into a political gesture. As in LA IMPRESIÓN DE UNA GUERRA (2015), Restrepo deploys a brilliantly written voiceover—his own—that confronts the images. The source is an old documentary about the Pan-American Highway as it crosses the Darién, the only passage between South and North America and a bottleneck for goods and human beings. From these “stolen” images, Restrepo constructs a film about colonialism as an omnipresent system of thought. (Gonzalo de Pedro Amatria)

In the presence of Rachel Lauren Mueller.
This film will be shown as part of the screening THEY’RE HERE.