Pablo Barriga Dávalos

The first time Hugo Montero entered the psychiatric hospital he was twenty years old. He died there, at the age of eighty-five. He produced hundreds of poems and drawings behind those walls. In 2004 he published a book of his poetry, Penumbras. In the prologue to his book he says: Is writing a resurrection?

The tecuas want to make a gang movie. They skip classes to be able to film. La Muñequita has left her gang because La Diabla wanted to introduce some girls who would spoil the vibe. El Man de la Villa is pissed. Robberies and fights, things are getting out of hand. The filmmakers are scared.

The sound of a chainsaw. The removed ground where the freshly planted pines grow. Quechua spoken in the Bolivian Andes. Trees, people, machines, money. The tense and fragile relationship that is stablished between them. A forrest between the mountains. The conflicts that make a territory.