Juan Diego Pérez Arias

Karl Dieter Gartelmann, a German photographer and filmmaker, arrived in Ecuador in the seventies, in the midst of the oil boom, with an old 16mm Bolex video camera, and began a journey through the Ecuadorian jungle, collecting the visual testimony of a life that is dying. This documentary brings together the director's permanent concerns: culture and nature wasted by extractivism. A conversation between two directors about the creation of memory through cinema.

Karl Dieter Gartelmann, a German photographer and filmmaker, arrived in Ecuador in the seventies, in the midst of the oil boom, with an old 16mm Bolex video camera, and began a journey through the Ecuadorian jungle, collecting the visual testimony of a life that is dying. This documentary brings together the director's permanent concerns: culture and nature wasted by extractivism. A conversation between two directors about the creation of memory through cinema.

Karl Dieter Gartelmann, a German photographer and filmmaker, arrived in Ecuador in the seventies, in the midst of the oil boom, with an old 16mm Bolex video camera, and began a journey through the Ecuadorian jungle, collecting the visual testimony of a life that is dying. This documentary brings together the director's permanent concerns: culture and nature wasted by extractivism. A conversation between two directors about the creation of memory through cinema.

Piel dolor (Skin Pain) explains how power is structurally sustained in violence. Its nature and the relationships it establishes in society are based more on the imposition and use of force than on building consensus, dialogue, and respect for diversity. In that sense, power is a behavior that seeks dominance through force and man as a gender, becomes an instrument of violence that is exercised against the weakest. Extinguishing the socially constructed violence means eliminating the current power and its historical sustenance, questioning the source of origin, religion, ideology, the system and its values. Is that utopia possible?

Documentary about ecuadorian writer Jorge Enrique Adoum.

История одной из самых запутанных и печально известных тяжб — дела о так называемом Амазонском Чернобыле, когда 30000 коренных жителей эквадорской сельвы подали коллективный иск против американского нефтяного гиганта Chevron. В иске говорится, что заводы Chevron на протяжении последних тридцати лет систематически загрязняют воду, воздух и почву в Эквадоре. В результате экологически чистые прежде леса превратились в огромную мертвую зону. Режиссер и его команда прослеживают, как разворачивалась эта юридическая битва и из небольшого местного дела превратилась в знаменитый международный процесс. Экологические последствия потребления ископаемых видов топлива в последнее время широко освещаются, "Нефть" же уделяет основное внимание тому, что зависимость человечества от нефти зачастую стоит жизней, и тому, как трудно привлечь корпорации к ответственности за это.

The documentary registers the reaction of the inhabitant the communities of Imbabura, Zamora, Chinchipe and others Ecuadorian provinces under the influence of mining. The testimonies of the leaders and the protagonists tell the facts that are at the center of this story.

The documentary registers the reaction of the inhabitant the communities of Imbabura, Zamora, Chinchipe and others Ecuadorian provinces under the influence of mining. The testimonies of the leaders and the protagonists tell the facts that are at the center of this story.