Colombia

Back in the ’80s, wishing to display his opulence, Columbian cartel king Everisto Porras built in the south of Columbia a replica of the mansion from the famous American soap opera Dynasty. LAURA HUERTAS MILLÁN films the ruins of this copycat construction, guided by the voice of a local who seems to have known the cartel boss and who speaks of the luxury, decadence and obsolescence of his life. Mixing fragments from the TV show with shots of the remains of the luxurious mansion, now a ruin taken over by nature, MILLÁN underlines the existence of two parallel modes of representation of a constructed reality and illustrates the cultural influence the United States has over South America. (Emil Vasilache, BIEFF 2019)