Bardofilms :: Agustín Calderón

The assassination of democracy
aka Shut Up Bitch!
Octubre 2009

O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

And somewhere in the North by northwest south american banana republic
the well now, "free media"¹ makes a little fishy.

Claudia López:²

"I don’t have enough words to explain to you how absolutely surprised and disconcerted this reaction from El Tiempo’s directorship leaves me. It never crossed my mind that El Tiempo would fire one of their own columnists for criticizing the newspaper, even less that they would to so without warning, instead notifying me about it publicly, and even less without even offering a single argument to contradict the criticisms. I never imagined that the directorship of the newspaper would turn to someone in power, instead of journalism, to report or contradict its information or opinions.

There is neither trust nor conditions to keep writing in El Tiempo now. I can write somewhere else. I’m not worried about that. But I do believe that attention must be called to the excessive risk to Colombian democracy when the most important newspaper in the country refuses to debate well-founded criticisms about the risks and conflicts of interest between its business, political and journalistic activities."

1·media: "The word "media" seems preferable to "medios" since "medios", in spanish, suggest the existence of certain "ends", but the "media" have no other purpose than that of its own expansion without any purpose. They are will to power in a pure state." Félix de Azúa. Diccionario de las artes. Editorial Anagrama, 2002.

2·Source: The Center for International Policy's. Colombia Program

Yesterday
December 2008

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Es libre!!!
July 2008

Ingrid Betancourt is free right now. And I feel my self very happy. I can see my own expresion. My feelings, my eyes are opened again!!! Freeeeeeeeeeedooooooooom!!!!!!!!!!!!

GinTonic
September 2007

Gintonic is a fragment in Alejandra's and Gabriela's lives. Two sisters, one is a prostitute and the other one is an alcoholic. One day after work, Alejandra meets Gabriela, who's drunk as usual. But today they are alone. There's nobody to control them. This time they can get to know each other and they can show themselves as they are. They recognize each other in their childhood games, in their truths. They have grown up neither being victims nor allowing anyone else to victimize them, and this is what makes them the main characters and gives them strength to change their destiny.

LA
November 2007

LA is the sixth part of the Symphonic Series (Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si, Do). The Symphonic Series is a very short shortfilms series, made as cinematographic language exploration exercises. They pretend to explore only one idea and found a new idea to start the next work. As a series, it's infinite. The idea used to create LA is the composition of the space through the sound.