

The Vampires of Poverty
Agarrando pueblo
Film · 29 min · Spanish · 1978
Directed by Luis Ospina
Two filmmakers travel around impoverished sectors of the cities of Bogotá and Cali in search of the images of abjection needed to complete a documentary commissioned by German TV. Meanwhile, another camera captures these “vampire” filmmakers feeding off the misery of their marginal subjects.
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- Catalogued entity (metadata)
- SATUPLE
- Country of origin
- Colombia
- Catalogued
- 2026-10-06
- Registry ID
- MRR-1978-FLM-922621
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