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CUENTOS DEL DESFORTUNIO
(Stories of Misfortune), 2003
Ecuador
Original format: DVD
Length: 5´1”
Diego David Cifuentes Guerra; photography, music and
animation by the author.
E-mail: dcifuentes@andinanet.net


Encapsulating a sense of despair in a sequence of fixed images cropped with calculated premeditation and intertwined with animation and incidental music, the narrative beneath reiterates itself with different characters and circumstances, time and again. The slow motion of the camera and the sordid atmosphere of the images embody a wordless tragedy, a common place for Latin American reality, or for all that is unjust and unfair in our world.


Diego David Cifuentes Guerra was born in Quito, Ecuador on February 8, 1964. He studied Sociology and Political Sciences at the Catholic University in Quito. He is a professional photographer and as such has taught at the St. Francis and Catholic Universities in Quito, and collaborated with the newspapers Diario Hoy and El Comercio, also in Quito. He has participated in several group exhibitions, among them the 2004 Triennal LUMO in Finland. His photographs have been published in Norway, Spain and Ecuador. He lives in San Rafael, Province of Pichincha, in Ecuador.

 

 

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