Flowing Memories
Short Film
TypeAlejandra Hernandez, Juan David Sánchez
CollaboratorsHenrietta Williams
AdvisorCajicá, Colombia
Location2020
Year Flowing Memories traces a site facing fast-paced urban transformation by overlapping oral and visual memories of life in Cajicá with views of the threatened Rio Bogotá. The film is organized around five chapters where different community members from Cajicá narrate their life in the town before and after the urban transformation. As the film advances, the pristine images of the Bogotá River are replaced by distressing images of the current state of the river after the construction of the containing dams. The soundtrack evolves from sound recordings from the river to city, stressing the fast and inevitable destruction of the rural and ecological areas of Cajicá in the name of urbanization.
The film explores a personal struggle from the filmmaker to defamiliarize with a site he had known from his family legacy, by celebrating the knowledge and perspectives contributed by the local community members. The film depicts the complex social and political site of Cajicá, where PÚBLICO emerges as a space where local communities participate in projects reshaping the town in a different social form.
The film explores a personal struggle from the filmmaker to defamiliarize with a site he had known from his family legacy, by celebrating the knowledge and perspectives contributed by the local community members. The film depicts the complex social and political site of Cajicá, where PÚBLICO emerges as a space where local communities participate in projects reshaping the town in a different social form.
