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PULOWI

An Experimental Indigenous Futurist Queer Feature Film by Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau & Elizabeth Pirela González

In the vibrant landscapes of La Guajira, Colombia, Pulowi, a mythical female Wayuu spirit, often depicted as a faceless huntress wandering through deserts and forests, and linked with both fertility and devastation, beauty and grotesqueness, capable of both giving life and bringing death, embarks on a spiritual and physical journey where she undergoes several metamorphoses. These transformations lead her to fly over the sea as a bird in a Wayuu canoe, confront the desert’s pollution by consuming plastic bags as a goat, and embody hybrid beings that connect the human with the animal, mirroring Pulowi’s internal conflict between the physical environment and Wayuu spirituality, and her duality as both a mysterious entity and a woman of the modern world.

Script & Directing, Camera, Editing
ELIZABETH PIRELA GONZÁLEZ
Simon*e Paetau
Production:
Atelier Lapaetau, Itui Films, weltfilm
Funding:Ilse-Augustin Stiftung

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