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Residents on the railraoad

Synopsis:

R and R, cigar, R and R,
barrel, rapidly roll the
wagons loaded with sugar from
the railroad. Originally in
spanish “R con R cigarro, R
con R barril rápido ruedan los
carros cargados de azúcar del
ferrocarril” a children
traditional tongue-twister,
reminded me of the train that
goes through Bogota, wich in
the late years has been
covered with publicity from a
very famous candy company. Its
not only candy what the train
carries or what it leaves
behind.
For this reason this
tongue-twister is a stepping
stone to elaborate a
reflection about the railroad
in Bogota, starting from
fragments of events that
happen in this forgotten
habitat, where different kinds
of beings coexist, like
plants, curious people, and
even a family that lives in an
abandoned wooden wagon near
the tracks.
This video is an
acknowledgement of objects and
characters of Bogota,
anonymous beings that fade in
memory images of the ones that
reside in this city, that now
we find difficult to recognize
...

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