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Un Tigre de Papel - A Paper Tiger
A paper tiger is the story of Pedro Manrique Figueroa, pioneer of collage in Colombia and who has never had a
biographer. For a very simple reason: his life is like an adventure novel that is both incomplete and
contradictory, constantly linked to the sparkling uncertainties of oral tradition.
Taking Manrique Figueroa’s life and work as a pretext, this film takes the viewer on a journey through
history from the year 1934 up until 1981, when the artist mysteriously disappeared from view. A Paper Tiger is
itself a collage, where art and politics rub shoulders, where truth and lies are placed side by side, where
documentary and fiction intermingle.
According to Daniel Balderston, professor of Spanish in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of
the University of Iowa in the US, Ospina's new film questions whether the 1960s were a dream or reality.
"Ospina proposes nothing less than the retelling and re-imagining of a crucial period of Colombian
history, from the civil war that began in 1948 to the guerrilla fighting and new drug culture of the 1970s,"
Balderston said.
Ospina's work consists of features, short films and documentaries. At the 2000 Cartagena Film Festival,
he was named best director for his fiction feature "Soplo De Vida" (Breath of life) which also won
best film. His documentary "La Desazón Suprema" (The supreme uneasiness) on the Colombian
writer Fernando Vallejo, won the Grand Prix Award in the best documentary category at the 2004 Toulouse Latin
American Film Festival. In 2006, he received the Latin American Studies Association Award of Merit in Film."*
*Taken from http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu
- news release from the University of Iowa, USA
Admission 18+
Tickets: $13, $10 (concession)
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not only film, video and screen culture from the regions, but also the language, music and cultures of the
Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world.
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