Winner of the Colombian National Award for Documentary, Ospina investigates the life and work of legendary Colombian collage artist Pedro Manrique Figuerora from 1934 to his mysterious disappearance in 1981. The artist’s elusive and contradictory story serves as a pretext for a documentary about the 60s and 70s, a period so often idealised and mystified, which examines the relationship between art and politics, between truth and lies, and between documentary and fiction.
Co-founder of the Cine Club de Cali and Ojo al Cine magazine, since the 70s Ospina has won critical acclaim as director, editor, scriptwriter, producer and academic, and is a Visiting Fellow at the Universidad of Cambridge this spring.