LOS INICIOS DEL CINE SOBRE EL CONFLICTO EN COLOMBIA: GUERRILLAS, ‘LA VIOLENCIA’ Y UNA INTERPRETACIÓN DEL PASADO PARTICULAR

Colombian cinema has become, since de beginning of the armed conflict (1964-2016), in a weapon of representation, reconsideration, reconstruction and distribution of multiple views about the causes, development and different historical stories regarding the belic event. These cinematographic interpretations have evolved along the process, creating ideas based on a multiplicity of ‘guilty parties’, which go from more simplistic explanations to the acknowledgement that the conflict is a combination of different violences and with diverse graduation, depth and development. In this paper, we will demonstrate that, in general, the cinema witch starts in 1964 with El rio de las tumbas, creates its own way of narrating the recent Colombian past, something maintained until today with its own variations. We could consider this story as a romantic vision on political violence.