Corta

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• Genre(s): Documentary, History
• Language(s): Español (Spanish)
• Director(s): Felipe Guerrero

• Duration: 1h 10min
• Similar To: Murder by the Coast, El Crazy Che
• Story:
  The Corta project arises from my interest in the cane cutters who work in the southwestern region of Colombia. I knew about the precarious conditions for those whose lives depend on the manual cutting of sugar cane, but what I wanted to film from this world was the sense of frenzy that imbues these men's survival. I meant to observe the rhythm of their movements in their daily struggle, cut by cut. My interest laid on the discovery of a documentary language written on the basis of the swinging movements in their work. My aim was to approach weariness through hypnotic extenuation and tension from a cinematographic form based on such alliteration.
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