Los documentales audiovisuales y el conflicto armado en Colombia: el caso de “Ciro y Yo”, dirigido por Miguel Salazar (2018)

Abstract

To approach audio-visual documentaries as a tool for the recognition and study of what has been the recent history of the country, it will be the central topic of analysis in this research; having the documentary Ciro y Yo as an object of study, identifying the story of Ciro Galindo and his family as the x-ray of what has generated the armed conflict in Colombia in the lives' victims and communities. Thense, two political cores of discussion are analyzed, on the one hand, State's fragility that has allowed the use of force towards the civil population, with the violence that it can entail; and, on the other hand, the biopower and the thanatopolitics, as sources to maintain the power and to achieve territories' control, from practices that infringe fear and devastation in the communities.