Abstract
Colombia has been structured by war, and this situation has permeated the country’s art, with variations that go hand in hand with the transformations of violence. In this chapter, I delve into the work of filmmaker Nicolás Rincón-Gille. What I explore as remarkable in his films is how violence does not “monopolize everything else” but makes life count in the face of the brutal effects of devastation. What persists in these films is the capacity of those who have lived through and been traversed by destruction to reposition themselves in what remains and their ability to give an account of what happened to them by finding everyday resources to deal with it. Thus, these films can break away from the identifications that bind victims to a place of impotence by exploring their capacities, perceptions of the conflict, and experiences of mourning and creating, through this exploration, dissensual works of memory.
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The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People’s Army (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia—Ejército del Pueblo, FARC–EP or FARC) was a Marxist–Leninist guerrilla group involved in the Colombian armed conflict since 1964. In 2016, the Colombian government and the FARC signed a peace deal after four years of negotiations. In 2017, FARC ceased to be an armed group. However, this same year about 2000 to 2500 FARC dissidents rearmed, though this group is far smaller than the original one at its peak.
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Name given in Colombia to the extrajudicial executions perpetuated by the Colombian army during Álvaro Uribe’s second administration. They involved the assassination of innocent civilians who were then presented as dead guerrillas, in order to show results on the part of combat brigades who received monetary compensation for each assassinated guerrilla. This situation began to be exposed around 2006 by social activists, human rights advocates, and victims’ organizations, which gradually evolved into the ‘mothers of Soacha,’ who began denouncing the death of their sons after nineteen of them were found murdered in that municipality in 2008.
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That boy that I love so much / The one that I scold all the time / He reminded me yesterday / That I was like that when I was a boy too / That I was only calmed down by a slap or two / From old Rafael / And he’s so much like dad, a man with a good soul/ And he’s so much like dad, a man with a good soul
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Quintana, L. (2023). The Emancipated Bodies of Nicolás Rincón-Gille: Dissenting Memories, amidst Devastations. In: Zepke, S., Alvarado Castillo, N. (eds) Violence and Resistance, Art and Politics in Colombia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10326-1_4
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