The program tells the life stories of girls who were part of irregular army groups in Colombia and are now disengaging from the conflict. Each story explores worlds of memories, nightmares and dreams with staging, as starting point for animated sequences, through rotoscope. This technique allows to protect their identities and facilitate the recreation of dreams and memories. Each chapter translates the subjective sights of the facts that the girls tell, putting emphasis on before and after the war. We are interested in emotions and reasons of the combatants. We document the army conflict from the perspective of the actors involved, from the particular situation of the minor combatants. We are looking to transform the common imagery about disengaging girls, facilitate their inclusion in society, explore the possibilities of film in the process of collective memory. The need to keep the characters’ identities unknown and the violence of their tales distance us from the real image, and takes us towards a surreal aesthetic with visual metaphors that makes the barbarism of the tales bearable for the audience.
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