21 mins | 2018 | 16mm, found footage, HD | 5.1 | DCP
Spanish | English and French Subtitles.
A voyage into the labyrinthine memories of Cristobal Gomez Abel, who worked for the drug lords in the Colombian Amazon during the 1980s. The film follows his journey through the forest and the ruins of a narco's mansion, inspired by the Carrington mansion in the soap opera Dynasty, as it unravels the hallucinatory narrative of a near-death experience.
The Labyrinth
Awarded the Pardo di Domani Best Direction Prize, 2018
Locarno Film Festival
JENY303
6 mins | 2018 | 16 mm | Stereo | DCP
Spanish | English and French Subtitles
Born from an 'objective hazard,' in which a 16mm roll mistakenly combined two different subjects, jeny303 is a composite piece that weaves together two portraits. On one side, we have Jeny, in the process of recovering from heroin addiction. On the other side, we have the 303 building, an iconic modernist structure within a public university in Bogota, Colombia. The serendipitous and alchemical meeting of these two elements forms a short narrative about altered states, offering an open microstory of transformation and grief.
29 mins | 2017 | HD | Stereo | DCP
Spanish | English and French Subtitles
“Produced out of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, Laura Huertas Millan’s masterful La Libertad follows a group of matriarchal weavers in Mexico, whose backstrap loom – a pre-Hispanic technique preserved for centuries by Indigenous women in Mesoamerica – provides the formal structure for the film’s exploration of handicrafts and their ties to freedom. With echoes of the influential ethnographic work of Chick Strand, La Libertad combines astute observation, testimony, subtle transfers in scale, space and texture, as it weaves its own singular study of labour, creativity, and the mysterious traces that circulate between them.” Andréa Picard
La Libertad
43 mins | 2016 | 2K | Stereo | DCP
Spanish | English and French Subtitles
The title (“Black Sun”) is as evocative of solar eclipse as it is of the “dark spleen” which doctors, all through Antiquity, used to attribute to melancholic and suicidal drives, especially as they affected artists. Here such drives end up striking the existence of Antonia, an opera singer whose dark beauty brings light to the film. Through discreet and elliptical staging, Laura Huertas Millán presents Antonia’s multi-faceted character.
Sol Negro (Black Sun)
Best film, National Competition, 2016
Muestra Internacional de Documental de Bogotá
Best short film, 2016
Fronteira Film Festival
Grand Prix Honourable mention, International competition, 2016
Doclisboa
Special jury mention Grand Prix of the French competition, 2016
FIDMarseille
19 mins | 2012 | HD | Stereo | DCP
Spanish | English and French Subtitles
A journey upstream the Amazon River where Modernist constructions have been abandoned like the memories of an engulfed civilization of the future. Aequador is a science-fiction documentary evoking the colonization of nature, former utopias in Latin American forests, and their cohabitation with the present.
" An uchronic travel in a territory with an uncertain topography, Aequador explores nature as a place of emergence of otherness, a landscape where the imprint of men, their narratives and their monuments remain beautifully fragile." Julien Farenc.
Aequador
Journey to a land otherwise known
23 mins | 2011 | 2K | Stereo | DCP
French | English and Spanish Subtitles
A documentary fiction inspired by the colonial accounts of natural and ethnographic explorations in America by conquistadors, missionaries, and scientists. Shot in the Tropical Greenhouse of Lille, France, the film utilizes both the architecture and the plants within this enclosed botanic garden as narrative elements. Guided by the voice-over of an explorer, the film delves into the concept of exoticism, evokes the violent origins of the so-called 'New World,' and the lasting impact of the imagery it generated.
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