Rember Yahuarcani is an indigenous artist from the Uitoto Nation who lives in Lima, Peru. From his clan, the White Heron, only two families remain in Peru. Rember's paintings are inspired by the stories his grandmother Martha told him before she died. However, he has never dived into the darkest part of his nation’s history: the indigenous massacre during the rubber boom. Martha is a survivor of the horror and she speaks to Rember in dreams guiding him in a spiritual journey back to the jungle. He first visits his parents, who are also artists, in the Peruvian jungle. And finally, he sails to La Chorrera, in Colombia, where he confronts the past and meets other members of his clan.
Cinematography
Jungle and canvas merge in hypnotic visual poetry.
Direction
Frigola Torrent lets silence and landscape carry the horror.
Director
Núria Frigola Torrent
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Uitoto were among 40,000+ Indigenous people killed in the Putumayo rubber genocide, which inspired Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness.'
Rember's 'dream' paintings are part of a living Uitoto tradition where ancestors communicate through visions, not metaphor.
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