Gabriela Samper

The Man of Salt

The documentary chronicles the methods of work in relation to pre-Columbian man and the current farmer.

Fómeque Folklore Festival

Film of a folk festival in Colombia, featuring indigenous music, dance, crafts, and other cultural activities.

The Most Holy Brotherhood

The High Holy Brothers is a documentary on a mysterious Messianic cult formed by peasants who fled the violence of the forties/fifties in Colombia and are admitted to live in the mountains of southern Tolima. Its members dress in sacks, they have their own dialect and regard everything as “Blessed”, minus the right side of the body, which castrated covering it with the “holy coat”. This group rejects all elements of the consumer society, established institutions, the state, church and political parties.

A Mask for Me, a Mask for You

A lonely little black boy in Watts finds his way to the Watts Towers Arts Center and finds companionship and satisfaction in creating masks and other craft projects. This ethnographic documentary describes the thoughts of this boy who likes to hide behind the security of paper masks.

Cities in Crisis: What's Happening?

An impressionistic sequence of experiences—a kind of Rorschach test—meant to evoke individual personal responses on various levels.

The Heights of Cumanday

Calentoso, is a young boy that must transport mules across the mountains. He will be challenged to discover the deep secrets that the summit entails. This film is based on the legend of the ghost of the Ruiz Snow Mountain in the Region of Cumanday in Colombia.