{"id":664,"date":"2013-09-30T20:16:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T03:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/?p=664"},"modified":"2013-09-30T20:18:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T03:18:11","slug":"agarrando-pueblo-aka-the-vampires-of-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/30\/agarrando-pueblo-aka-the-vampires-of-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Agarrando Pueblo (aka The Vampires of Poverty)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_665\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Screen-shot-2013-09-30-at-10.41.38-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-665\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Screen-shot-2013-09-30-at-10.41.38-PM-300x214.png\" alt=\"&quot;Agarrando Pueblo&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Screen-shot-2013-09-30-at-10.41.38-PM-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Screen-shot-2013-09-30-at-10.41.38-PM.png 631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Agarrando Pueblo<br \/>(aka The Vampires of Poverty)&#8221; by Mayolo and Ospina 1978, Cali, Colombia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I recently re-visited this very important mockumentary from 1978 and need to make a note of it.  <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/6086559\" title=\"\"Agarrando Pueblo\"\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Agarrando Pueblo (aka The Vampires of Poverty)&#8221;<\/a> was shot in Cali, Colombia, 1978 and is a satiric mockumentary critiquing the popularity of documentaries capturing Latin American poverty in the 1970s.  Mayolo and Ospina coined the term &#8220;pornomiseria&#8221; or &#8220;pornography of misery&#8221; in reference to the objectification of poverty in Latin America for Eurocentric audiences.<\/p>\n<p>The director and cameraman move quickly around the city requesting a taxi driver to take them to spots where they can capture poor children, crazy people and whores.  The directors have a recipe of necessary vignettes to compose the documentary.  When pedestrians confront the film makers they dismissively tell them that it&#8217;s to inform the world or that they don&#8217;t understand what this film is about.  At one point the director is filmed some cocaine in his hotel bathroom between shots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/6086559\" title=\"\"Agarrando Pueblo\"\" target=\"_blank\">The film is available on Vimeo.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently re-visited this very important mockumentary from 1978 and need to make a note of it. &#8220;Agarrando Pueblo (aka The Vampires of Poverty)&#8221; was shot in Cali, Colombia, 1978 and is a satiric mockumentary critiquing the popularity of documentaries capturing Latin American poverty in the 1970s. 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