Images to raise our gaze: Fragments from a conversation with Luis Ospina and Camilo Restrepo

Abstract

In this conversation, Luis Ospina and Camilo Restrepo, two filmmakers who personify two periods in Colombian cinema and history, reflect on the presence of dead bodies in cinema and, particularly, of corpses as a filmic matter in their respective works and poetics. On the basis of a similar questionnaire carried out simultaneously with each filmmaker, the text brings together common and dissonant motifs to outline a possible generational arc of Colombian cinema in which the cinematographic representation of the corpse is presented as a historiographical and political motif in order to carry out an interpretation of cinema and history.