Posts tagged Colombia

Multimedia web channel TodoLoQueHay (All There Is) [es] from Colombia recently posted a short visual journey in the Emberá-Chamí indigenous reserve previously known as Christendom, whose inhabitants are now trying to make known by its ancestral name instead: Karmata Rua.

Beautiful video from the art collective Invisible Society in Bogotá.  Bringing together 53 artists who set up art installations or performance, the video itself is a comment on collective process and result.

(via  Juliana Rincón Parra) 

In the International Museum of Women, the current online exhibit is all about mothers. MAMA: Motherhood around the Globe explores the different aspects of motherhood through video interviews to women in Nigeria, Kenya, Afghanistan, USA, Colombia, Hungary, China and Norway.

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The VJ Movement video documentary Refugees turn to Sex Work in Ecuador examines the situation with many Colombian women who had to migrate across the border into Ecuador due to violence. In many cases, without being able to gain legal employment, the women and their daughters find themselves turning to sex-work to make a living.

The ‘Born on December 31st’ documentary by Priscila Padilla exposes a human rights violation the Wayuu indigenous group of Colombia have been under.

Many of their national IDs, mass produced to get important votes in election periods, state they were all born on the same date and feature offensive made-up names; which they were unable to notice because Spanish is not their native language.

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It’s Global Handwashing Day today! We’ve collected public health music videos about clean hands from eight countries. Above, hip hop Grammy winners Chocquitbtown from Colombia tell kids how it’s done. See more videos here.

The Creative Commons Audiovisual Festival will be taking place in Barranquilla and Medellin later this month. You can still experience it even if you aren’t in Colombia by requesting to Copy the Festival, and getting a full package to replicate the festival, including films, talks and contact information for directors and panelists.