Los Viajes Del Viento

Los viajes del viento. Dir. Ciro Guerra. Colombia-Argentina-Alemania-Holanda, 2009. Dur.: 117 ruin. Los viajes del viento, or The Wind Journeys, is Colombian director Ciro Guerra's second full-length film, after his first b|ack and white La sombra del caminante, or The Wandering Shadows (2004). In La sombra del caminante, Guerra's lens focuses on Bogota, the capital city of Colombia, film which can certainly be included in the long list of the so called Latin American urban cinema. In his second cinematic work, Guerra switches his focus to some of the rural areas of Colombia, namely some of the north regions of the country, primarily the departments (in Colombian geography, a department corresponds to what would be a state in the geographical system of The United States) of Cesar, Sucre, Cordoba, and La Guajira, areas which, as a matter of fact, have been heavily hit by guerilla and paramilitary groups. Interestingly enough, these areas, for the most part, had previously been invisible to Colombian directors and filmmakers and consequently to national and international audiences. The fact that Guerra decided to bring attention to these areas could definitely be considered as one of his innovations. Guerra himself is from a town called Rio de Oro (located in Cesar, one of Colombia's northern departments.)