PUKEM SWA / WINTER SUN

 

A documentary film by Samuel Moreno Alvarez

Investigation: Camila Medrano Galarza

Sound: David Aguilera Cogollo

Color grading: Rafael Lacau

Sound editing: Esteybi Beleño Sampayo, Deimer Quintero, Abel Villa

Mix sound: Deimer Quintero, Abel Villa (ARCHIPIÉLAGO SONORO)​​

Co producers Archipiélago sonoro, David Aguilera, Camila Medrano

Associate producer: Lacau Studio, Esteybi Beleño Sampayo

Length: 71"

Year: 2025

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SINOPSIS

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This film is a portrait of the childhood of Pukem Swa (10), his name means winter sun. He is a mysterious boy, living in a remote mountain in the Colombian Andes, where he learns an extinct indigenous language that no one else speaks. As we walk through the mountain with him, we encounter the Chibcha language that begins to come alive, it is the sound found inside the stones painted by the ancestors.

 

 

DIRECTOR NOTE

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For this film I wanted to work from a child's point of view, from what has been conceived and realized in cinema by artists such as Cocteau, Cornell and Stan Brakhage. 

 

Cocteau said that artists were children who had not grown up, and that the one who created was a child within oneself, and that art came from that place, that childish, young, rebellious, innocent, pure look. In Pukem Swa, I tried to give that place to the child that I am, to film the character of the film in a horizontal way, trying to live his time, his space, to evoke his imaginary. 

 

This film is made in the context of the process of revitalization of an indigenous language extinct during the Spanish invasion and that with the help of a series of linguistic experts has developed a new language, which is being accepted and disseminated among communities. One of the enthusiasts and developer of a course for learning Chibcha, is the father of the protagonist of the documentary, that is why the child is learning this language, being one of the first people to receive this method of teaching that leads to another kind of dialogue with the territory, with nature and with his family. The filming was done in the town of Raquira, Boyacá with this family and a small filming crew consisting of two people.

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