Alejandra Muñoz Ruiz Colombian photographer and documentary filmmaker. Partner and founder of Aica Colectivo, an independent organization focused on the creation of research and visual and audiovisual content as a method of self-education, memory creation and reflection. They have directed several national and international award-winning documentary projects with indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Colombia. Projects directed: -Kiwe Samai-Yo me llamo Tierra. Winning photodocumentary in the call "Memorias del Futuro" of the Programa Distrital de las Artes de Bogotá-Colombia (2013). -Nasa Phtmnxuu-Nasa indigenous house. Documentary project that works on the recovery of the uses and customs of the Nasa community of the Tumbichucue reservation in Tierradentro-Colombia (2013). Selected to participate in different film festivals and community shows at national and international level. -Al son de la migra. Experimental documentary project that tells the story of young immigrants from the Colombian Pacific, in which beyond making visible their condition as migrants, we wanted to emphasize the great contribution that their traditional practices represent for the intercultural strengthening of the city of Bogota (2013). -Dos temitas-Two Themes. Documentary project that tells the story of Adriana, a woman artist, immigrant and fighter who symbolizes, if you will, the entire community of street and independent workers who are daily persecuted by codes and state laws that prohibit their free right to work in public spaces of large cities. In a social context of unemployment and lack of life opportunities, traditional Colombian music has provided her with the precise formula to move forward her life and that of her son, motivating her to become the great harpist of the means of mass transportation: Transmilenio (2013). -Saakhelu Kiwe Kame-Offering to Mother Earth. Documentary project focused on the ritual of the offering to nature of the Nasa indigenous community in post-conflict territory. Winner as best documentary of the festival Arica Nativa, La Araucanía, FICWALLMAPU (Chile) and Montes de María (Colombia).

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Nasa Phtamnxûu. Nasa indigenous casorio

Nasa Phtamnxūu - Indigenous Nasa Casorio desde Aica Films on Vimeo.

  • Alejandra Muñoz Ruiz
  • Mateo Leguizamón

The purpose of this document is to show the historical framework in which, on the one hand, the audiovisual product produced by Aica Colectivo on the rescue of the indigenous marriage is developed and, on the other, to trace the route of consolidation of the knowledge that is generated from the indigenous Nasa, in an exercise that allows to limit the cultural distances that today are present in the rest of the cultures of the country. This work aims to sketch the story of the Nasa Paez indigenous people, a native people of the ancestral territory of Tierradentro, Cauca-Colombia and whose mother tongue is Nasaywe, a community in constant resistance and in a struggle to forge its own history following in the footsteps of their ancestors.