El Laberinto
Laura Huertás Millán
Artist’s country of origen: Colombia – Francia
Materials: 16 mm, found footage, HD
Medium: video
Size: 21 min
Year: 2018
A voyage into the labyrinthine memories of Cristobal Gomez Abel, who worked for the drug lords in the Colombian Amazon during the 1980s. The film follows his journey through the forest and the ruins of a narco’s mansion, inspired by the Carrington mansion in the soap opera Dynasty, as it unravels the hallucinatory narrative of a near-death experience.
“The Labyrinth speaks to the syncretism of contemporary Colombia, where the disaster of narcocapitalism coexists with enduring precolonial relations to the world, creating an accord between the violence of the drug wars, the violence of European conquest, and possibilities of survival and resistance against both”
Erika Balsom
Awarded the Pardo di Domani Best Direction Prize, 2018
Locarno Film Festival
The Artist
Laura Huertas Millán
Laura Huertas Millán (b. 1983, Colombia) is an artist and filmmaker. She holds a PhD from Université PSL (SACRe-Programm) in Paris and conducted research at Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab as part of her studies.
