Dualities, chaos and poetics

Cinemaattic invites you to explore, once again, one of Latin America’s most prolific short film producers through a programme that embraces the nation’s contradictions and poetics in tension through classical short films and new voices. We are thrilled to welcome Colombian artist Daissy Pérez Ospina, co-director of the delightful Cine-Dance short film Desasir, as our special guest. She will join us for a discussion following the screening.

  24th October, 7.30pm (screening starts at 8pm)

CCA, 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3JD

Programme:

84

Daniel Cortés

Colombia | 2020 | 13’

In 1984, Álvaro Ulcué Chocué, a Colombian Catholic priest and indigenous rights activist, was shot dead. The incident looms against the backdrop of a collage of two archive images from the same year. Documentary footage and fictional gangsters capture the state of a country dominated by drug cartels and social unrest.

Desasir

Daissy Pérez Ospina & Elizabeth Pérez Ospina

Colombia | 2022 | 7’

A woman sheds a fear symbolized by water that engulfs her; she flees through a dark corridor, passing through portals of light that guide and protect her path to freedom.

Searching for Clover (Buscando tréboles)  

Víctor Gaviria

Colombia | 1980 | 10’

Moving and poetic images of the daily lives of blind children at a school in Medellín.

El Laberinto (The Labyrinth)

Laura Huertas Millán

France, Colombia | 2018 | 21’

A voyage into the labyrinthic memories of a Uitoto man, who worked for the drug lords in the Colombian Amazon back in the 80s. Following his path between the forest and the ruin of a Narco´s mansion imitating the Carrington mansion in the soap opera Dynasty, the film unfolds the hallucinatory account of a near-death experience.

The Trap (La Trampa) 

Ferney Iyokina Gittoma

Colombia | 2024 | 13’

Many years ago, grandfather Noé built a fish trap. Hidden in the jungle, it is a lost legacy for the hunters of the Indigenous Okaina community. With the arrival of a mysterious jaguar, Noé’s ancestors take this signal and strive to rebuild what was lost.

Tarro Vacio 

Vitilio Iyokina Gittoma

Colombia | 2024 | 22’

Tarro vacio follows the story of a young indigenous man who sees joining the military as an opportunity to improve his life and help his family. During medical examinations, a substance scientifically labeled as cocaine was detected in his system, which prevented him from enlisting. Vitilio Iyokina Gittoma’s short film exposes the gap between ancestral knowledge and the scientific world, revealing an institutionalism that ignores the spiritual importance of the practices surrounding the coca leaf.

Accessibility:

• Wheelchair accessible
• English captioning
• SDH captioning