DOCUMENTARY
ELDORADO XXI, SALOMÉ LAMAS, 2016, Portugal
After the amazing documentary Terra de Ninguém/ NO MAN'S LAND, the young Portuguese movie director makes another exceptional documentary about the "The ELDORADO" of Rinconada, where the economy is mainly based on the production of gold from nearby gold mines, many artisanal. Many miners work at the gold mine owned by Corporación Ananea. Under the cachorreo system they work for 30 days without payment. On the 31st day they are allowed to take with them as much ore as they can carry on their shoulders. Whether the ore contains any gold or not is a matter of luck. Pocketing of nuggets or promising chunks of rich ore is tolerated. Women are banned from the mines, but pallaqueras can be seen working though rock on the mine dumps.
ELDORADO XXI is a haunting and mysterious ethnographic reality cut-up. Set in the highest settlement in the world, La Rinconada y Cerro Lunar (5500m), in the Peruvian Andes; an
illusion leads men to self destruction, moved by the same interests, dealt with the same tools and means in contemporaneity as it has been dealt in the ancient times.
"Someplace we will in fact likely never go, though on second thought, as we emerge from the trance in which Lamas has had us entrammelled all this time, and gaze, say, down
at the rings on our fingers or the baubles hanging from our ears or necks, a place whose sordid travails actually deeply implicates us all. And what are we to make of that?"
– Lawrence Weschler, On Salomé Lamas’s Eldorado XXI
ELDORADO XXI
directed by Salomé Lamas • cinematography Luis Armando Arteaga • sound direction
Bruno Oliveira Dias • editing Telmo Churro • sound editing Miguel Martins • mix Fred
Bielle • original score João Lobo, Norberto Lobo • production manager Raquel da Silva •
producers Luis Urbano, Sandro Aguilar • co-producers Thomas Ordonneau
color | 125’ | DCP • © O SOM E A FÚRIA, SHELLAC SUD 2016
ELDORADO XXI, SALOMÉ LAMAS, 2016, Portugal
After the amazing documentary Terra de Ninguém/ NO MAN'S LAND, the young Portuguese movie director makes another exceptional documentary about the "The ELDORADO" of Rinconada, where the economy is mainly based on the production of gold from nearby gold mines, many artisanal. Many miners work at the gold mine owned by Corporación Ananea. Under the cachorreo system they work for 30 days without payment. On the 31st day they are allowed to take with them as much ore as they can carry on their shoulders. Whether the ore contains any gold or not is a matter of luck. Pocketing of nuggets or promising chunks of rich ore is tolerated. Women are banned from the mines, but pallaqueras can be seen working though rock on the mine dumps.
ELDORADO XXI is a haunting and mysterious ethnographic reality cut-up. Set in the highest settlement in the world, La Rinconada y Cerro Lunar (5500m), in the Peruvian Andes; an
illusion leads men to self destruction, moved by the same interests, dealt with the same tools and means in contemporaneity as it has been dealt in the ancient times.
"Someplace we will in fact likely never go, though on second thought, as we emerge from the trance in which Lamas has had us entrammelled all this time, and gaze, say, down
at the rings on our fingers or the baubles hanging from our ears or necks, a place whose sordid travails actually deeply implicates us all. And what are we to make of that?"
– Lawrence Weschler, On Salomé Lamas’s Eldorado XXI
ELDORADO XXI
directed by Salomé Lamas • cinematography Luis Armando Arteaga • sound direction
Bruno Oliveira Dias • editing Telmo Churro • sound editing Miguel Martins • mix Fred
Bielle • original score João Lobo, Norberto Lobo • production manager Raquel da Silva •
producers Luis Urbano, Sandro Aguilar • co-producers Thomas Ordonneau
color | 125’ | DCP • © O SOM E A FÚRIA, SHELLAC SUD 2016
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