(a work-in-progress film )
Directed and filmed by Karl Frost
in collaboration with Dr Cody Ross of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Filmed in Choco and Risaralda in Western Colombia, the film juxtaposes scenes of daily life with excerpts of interviews about varying experiences of violent displacement. Colombia has an estimated 6 million to 10 million people who have been violently displaced, most concentrated in rural areas and with particularly high concentrations in Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities. For some, displacement happened decades ago. For others, it has been in the last few years.
This film is not about the causes of displacement, but seeks to provide a windows on the varied experiences of people after displacement and in ongoing reconstruction of new lives. It is not a linear story but a scattershot attempt to capture the range of paths people’s lives have taken in rural western Colombia.
The first half of the film is a relatively non-linear sequence of sensory oriented images from life. The second half is a pastiche of interview clips about displacement reflecting a varied collective experience.
The film is based around the long-term anthropological field sites of Dr Cody Ross of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture.
click here for a link to the trailer
click link here for current work-in-progress version
run time: 61 minutes
Visual documentation supported by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture.