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OUR VOICE OF MEMORY, LAND AND FUTURE  (NUESTRA VOZ DE MEMORIA, TIERRA Y FUTURO) – restored 2019 version –Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva · 1974-80 · Colombia · 90 mins.

When: Saturday 20 January (18:30)

Where: ECVS – Edinburgh Cine and Video Society (23a Fettes Row, Edinburgh, EH36RH)

The Devil, as the saying goes, comes in many forms. In Our Voice of Memory, Land and Future
(Marta Rodríguez & Jorge Silva, 1974-80) strange masked men – some with top hat, all with spurs
– survey the mountains of southwest Colombia. Landowner, police officer, bureaucrat,
Conquistador: in a misty landscape of rural homesteads and exploited peons these figures of
authority become vivid renditions of the Devil’s work. It is within this context that a battle is
waged on film between light and dark, between Indigenous forms of resistance and the violence
of colonial relations.

Our Voice of Memory, Land and Future documents the birth of the Indigenous movement in the
Cauca region in the early 1970s, with the founding of the CRIC, the Indigenous Regional Council of
Cauca.

This screening will be introduced by Charlotte Gleghorn (Senior Lecturer in Latin American Film Studies – University of Edinburgh)