Eight minutes that'll crush your privilege and rebuild your soul.
Dramatic testimony of Gregorio Condori Mamani, who works as a porter in Cusco, Peru. Despite the huge effort they make everyday for a few coins, porters fall and find death in the streets.
Direction
Figueroa's restraint lets Mamani's words do the demolition.
Production
Minimalist approach that respects subjects without aestheticizing poverty.
Director
Luis Figueroa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Peru's 1970s activist cinema movement, when filmmakers abandoned studios for rural cameras-as-weapons.
Mamani later co-authored 'Andean Lives,' making this rare pre-fame documentary footage of a future published author.
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