The Vampires of Poverty

7.4

Genre: Comedy
Run time: 29 min
Premiere: 1978. January 1.

Director: Luis Ospina Carlos Mayolo
Writer: Carlos Mayolo Luis Ospina
Starring: Luis Alfonso Londoño Carlos Mayolo Ramiro Arbeláez Eduardo Carvajal

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.