Testimonio de Frederman
Video.
Duration: 86’50” min
Spanish Language
Original Format: Video HD
Projection format: DCP 2K Estereo
Production: Javier Codesal © 2019 España
Directed by and camera: Javier Codesal.
Production and direct sound: Julia Sieiro.
Production Assistant: Zaida Lizeth Hincapié.
Driver: William Silva Hernández.
Editing: Javier Codesal y Julia Sieiro.
Sound Post-production: Pedro Saavedra.
Technical assistance: Factoría de Vídeo.
With the participation of: Frederman Ospina Giraldo.
Work done with the Grant MULTIVERSO to the Creación en Videoarte 2017, BBVA Fundation.
Frederman’s life journey models what happened so many times in areas crossed by armed groups of different stripes. Witness since he was a child of scenes of extreme violence, repeatedly victim of deaths in his family environment caused by different agents, he himself enrolls in a paramilitary group, spends a few years in jail and later suffers an attack with eleven bullet wounds, surviving. to all this in an unthinkable way.
Director Bio
Javier Codesal (Sabiñánigo, Huesca, 1958) has a degree in Visual and Hearing Image Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid.
Considered one of the pioneers of video art in Spain, his interest in the body and music stand out in his career – present in productions as different as’ Centauro ‘,’ Sábado legionario ‘,’ Los remotos paises de la pena ‘or the exhibition’ Ponte el cuerpo’-, the approach to themes such as pain, death or illness – for example, through the series ‘Dias de Sida’ – and a series of portraits that includes ‘La habitación de rada’ (on the Balkan War), ‘Mario y Manuel’, ‘Portrait of Francisco del Río’ or ‘Mayte’. Two of his other artistic facets are regularly reflected in his works and installations: poetry and drawing.