Pablo Alvarez-Mesa
La Laguna del Soldado - Rewire Festival
A haunting excavation of Colombia’s high-altitude history, where nature and memory intertwine.
The foggy páramo biome of the Andean mountains is where Pablo Alvarez-Mesa’s La Laguna del Soldado (The Soldier's Lagoon) takes place – this is Álvarez-Mesa’s second film in a trilogy that traces Simón Bolívar’s passage during the Liberation Campaign of Colombia in 1819. Referred to as “the land of the mist” by Spanish Conquistadors, the extreme temperatures and high altitude of páramo make it a harsh and treacherous environment for humans. Alvarez-Mesa combines jaw-dropping 16mm imagery with testimonies from a polyphony of voices including botanists, craftspeople, and historians to excavate centuries of buried trauma and violence from this region’s lands and histories.
Spanish spoken, English subtitles.
REWIRE Festival 2025
Rewire is an annual international festival for adventurous music. Across four days from 3 - 6 April 2025, Rewire will return to The Hague with its fourteenth festival edition, bringing together a wide range of musical and interdisciplinary performances, specially commissioned works, club nights, installations, talks, screenings, and of course, films.
For the full program at Filmhuis Den Haag, click here.
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