Tag Archive | Documentary

Sigo Siendo – Kachkaniraqmi (I am still here, 2012)

I am still here_Kachqaniraqmi

Directed by Javier Corcuera

Written by Javier Corcuera and Ana de la Prada

Starring: Máximo Damián, Félix Quispe “Duco”, “Palomita”

BY ÚRSULA COX

In Quechua Chanka (from the Ayacucho province in the Peruvian Andes) when two dear old friends meet after a long time the chosen greeting is “¡Kachkaniraqmi!” to express that, despite everything, one still is, still exists, is still here or, in its plural version (Quechua in all its forms doesn’t differentiate between plural and singular), we are still here, we are still, despite the odds.  Read More…

El sol del membrillo (The Quince Tree Sun, 1992)

Sol membrillo

Directed by Víctor Erice

Written by Víctor Erice and Antonio López

Starring: Antonio López, Marina Moreno, Enrique Gran

BY SERGIO ROMERO

Víctor Erice’s film El sol del membrillo (1992) introduces us to the difficult and complex world of art and more specifically that of painting. This is not the first time that Víctor Erice has used the artistic world as the basis for one of his films – allusions to painters such as Jan Vermeer, Velázquez, Rembrandt or Edward Hopper are Read More…