filmantidote:filmantidote:Vampires of Poverty (Carlos Mayolo and Luis Ospina, 1973, Colombia)In the
filmantidote:filmantidote:Vampires of Poverty (Carlos Mayolo and Luis Ospina, 1973, Colombia)In the early 1970’s there appeared a certain type of documentary that superficially appropriated the achievements and methodologies of independent film to the point of deformation. In this way, poverty became a shocking theme and a product easily sold, especially abroad, where it is the counterpart to the opulence of consumption. We made a kind of antidote or Mayakovskian bath to open people’s eyes to the exploitation behind the miserabilist cinema which turns human beings into objects, into instruments of a discourse foreign to their own condition.RIP Luis Ospina -- source link