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The Most Holy Brotherhood

The High Holy Brothers is a documentary on a mysterious Messianic cult formed by peasants who fled the violence of the forties/fifties in Colombia and are admitted to live in the mountains of southern Tolima. Its members dress in sacks, they have their own dialect and regard everything as “Blessed”, minus the right side of the body, which castrated covering it with the “holy coat”. This group rejects all elements of the consumer society, established institutions, the state, church and political parties.

The Most Holy Brotherhood

7.0 1969
Refusila

Refusila (1969) , produced by the Architecture students of the Grupo Experimental de Cine (GEC), offers a chronicle of the social outbreak of 68 through a male and a female voice that imitate the rhetoric and style of radio journalism. This story alternates with silent pauses in which the “ticking” of a clock dramatizes and reinforces the atmosphere of tension. As we get to the month of August, while we see images of student mobilizations, the voices in overthey announce by way of headlines: “250 thousand people fired Líber Arce. New incidents between students and police. Priests denounce the state of violence on the continent.

Refusila

NR 1969
Festival en las entrañas

In 1963, the Ministry of Information and Tourism commissioned filmmaker José Val del Omar to make a series of ten shorts on the campaign Festivales de España for the New York World's Fair in 1964. With the excuse of documenting the shows of this cultural initiative in different Spanish cities, Val del Omar unfolds a dreamlike universe somewhere between the lyrical and the anthropological. This film corresponds to the two final episodes Luna de Sangre and Festival en las entrañas.

Festival en las entrañas

NR 1964