Marta Rodríguez: el documental vivo vuelve a vivir

Abstract

Marta Rodríguez is the best Colombian documentary filmmaker. Together with her husband Jorge Silva (1941-1987) she started making films with Chircales (1968-1972), already considered a "classic" in Latin America cinema. She subsequently shot and edited more than a dozen films documenting her country's realities from the viewpoint of the forgotten and the displaced, i.e., indigenous Colombians, peasants, the poor, women laborers. Her work in filmmaking is an example of the highest aesthetic and ideological concerns. Several of her films implied risks of her life. This essay focuses on her entire work with attention to the stylistics as well as to societal and political representation.hybridization to question Latin imagery in the United States.