Departamento de Cine de la Universidad de los Andes

Produced in 1982, Trans explores the lives of a group of trans women in Caracas, Venezuela. -Irene Rihuete-Varea

Diamantes, short produced by the ULA, registered the birth of a new town: San Salvador de Paul, the arrival of new residents, farmers who ventured in search of riches, merchants, gamblers, prostitutes, all trying to snatch the momentary wealth of those who discovered the mineral, typical image of underdevelopment.

In a far forgotten village there are great expectations for the arrival of some important government authorities.

A testimony of the torture experienced by José Efraín Labana Cordero in an anti-guerrilla camp called TO3.

“Through the use of violent symbols (loosely associated with Artaud’s notion of cruelty), some of the consequences of the current social organization in Latin-America are exposed: the alienation, marginalization and reification of men, and the continuous presence of imperialism, considered as rape.” (UU)

A motion picture of the economic and social situation in current Venezuela, through three characters affected one way or another by dependency and neocolonialism.

Ugo Ulive took his camera for a walk though the streets of Caracas, contrasting daily reality with a soundtrack taken from radionovelas, news broadcasts and popular music.