Carlos Santa

Relatos de Reconciliação is a broadcast project that artistically interprets the interviews and testimonies of some victims who suffered different types of violence in Colombia.

Where is narrated the unpleasant trip of Mr. Isaac Ink and the vicissitudes that happened to him with his dead.

Anzoategui is a short animated documentary film, inspired by the director’s questions about the story of the hometown of her mother and grandmother, which they left forty years ago. The town’s name appeared in conversations, but she never heard the reason for their departure, so it became a mystery. Her questions led her to find episodes of the family story, both happy and dark and met people who lived with them in the town.

Reconciliation Stories is a transmedia project that artistically interprets the interviews of some victims of different violence in Colombia. These stories seek to contribute to the construction of historical memory regarding the documentary and symbolic reparation part in the aesthetic approach that involves art to interpret the story, pretending to give voice to the direct victims and those who suffered similar patterns of victimization.

Although Santa doesn´t recreate the hell, but its outskirts, the images of the latter make us afraid of what is coming: after death comes a tunnel, and afterwards is the entrance to hell. But this is where The Dark Forest ends.

León Prozak lends his head to Mephistopheles for some circus numbers. Theses scenes, animations made by different plastic artist, are the centre of the film, the pleasure of paint on time. The animated paintings cover a wide range of topics, from politics to erotisicm, expressing their vision of the world.

"We consider that these are the most beautiful images of Colombian cinema until 1957. We have chosen them with the aim of bringing some viewers closer to the past. Trying to make time and beauty the common threads. The selection of the shots has depended on the importance of the films and the events. In these unfortunate times, of loss of essential elements of culture, an attentive look at the past can protect us from fashion."