Sylvie Blum
2021
Inca de Oro
Carmen Castillo, Sylvie Blum
A deep story about the routine in Inca de Oro, a sunken town in the north of Chile, where Carmen Castillo goes deep into the immobile memory of men and women clinging to the loneliness of gold. The documentary shows the life of the pirquineros and their families.
Inca de Oro
El astrónomo y el indio
Carmen Castillo, Sylvie Blum
4 of the world biggest astronomical observatories have been built in the Atacama desert (Chile). A new observatory, the ALMA, is going to be constructed close to an Indian village established in the same Cordillera for centuries. The film questions the co-existence on the same territory of two visions of the sky: scientists’ "rational" view and the Indians’ "magical" one.
El astrónomo y el indio
État de guerre, Nicaragua
Carmen Castillo, Sylvie Blum
1980s. The Counter-Revolution from three media points of view: that of the United States, that of foreign countries and that of Nicaragua . Comparison of the "reality" of Nicaragua in a "state of war" and how it is portrayed by the American media, which is heavily influenced by the role of the United States in this conflict. Various documents illustrate this approach: NBC and ABC television reports on recent events; the American NB Archives on the history of Nicaragua; a film shot by the Sandinista army; and Super 8 reports shot by the two journalists in December 1985 and January 1986.
État de guerre, Nicaragua
El camino del inca
Carmen Castillo, Sylvie Blum
The 23,000km long route of the Incas laces its way through the Cordillera range of the Andes. This road network served as the major means of transport, of communication and of government administration in the history of pre-colonialist America. The film covers three periods that deeply marked this region and its Indian tribes. Three phases, three eras for a road, and a history of violence and injustice that constantly repeats itself. Crystallizing the spirit of the conquests that took place in the Atacama Desert, a Peruvian prince once said in regard to the Indians: “We must spare our enemies or we will hurt ourselves, because they will soon be ours with all that is theirs”. In visualizing this statement, it is easy for us to imagine what hell the men of these lands endured during centuries of invasion and submission.
El camino del inca
