1977

paola vela 1977 film still




1977


SYNOPSIS: In 1977 a married couple from the middle-class traveled from Lima to Cusco for a holiday. Among the streets, ruins and vast landscapes, they recorded themselves with their own Super 8 camera film. Their relationship with the space was awkward. The near future appears in a tense way. The reconstruction of that memory is recreated in this video through the analysis of images and audio from a family archive. A bucolic trip is used to analyze the socio-political situation, between the end of the Military Dictatorship ruled by Morales Bermudez and the beginning of Shinning Path terrorist actions.

DIRECTOR: Paola Vela
PERFORMERS: Rómulo Vela & Josefa Vargas

TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Peru / 2011 / experimental / SD video with sound / 8 minutes / colour / found footage super 8 film transferred to MiniDV video / 4:3 / screening format: DVD, MiniDv.

SCREENINGS:
Insurgency in movement: Anthology of Peruvian audiovisual margins, Lima Art Museum MALI [2013] Lima, PE.