Two hundred years after Simón Bolívar’s liberation campaign in Colombia, La Laguna del Soldado (Soldier’s Lagoon) retraces the liberator’s journey as he travels through high-altitude swamps, searching for glimpses of his ghost still present in this historically contested territory. Reflecting on the construction of historical narratives and their environmental repercussions, La Laguna del Soldado (Soldier’s Lagoon) traverses the páramo, a living and elusive archive, navigating through the dense fog suspended between Simón Bolívar’s past and Colombia’s present. La Laguna del Soldado is the second in a series of three films that explore the intersection of oral narratives, political outcomes, and the territories marked by Simón Bolívar’s passage during the Colombian Liberation Campaign of 1819. The first completed part is Bicentenario (2021).
retraces the liberator’s journey through high-altitude swamps, searching for glimpses of his ghost still present in this historically contested territory. Reflecting on the construction of historical narratives and their environmental repercussions, La Laguna del Soldado traverses the páramo, a living and elusive archive, navigating through the dense fog suspended between Simón Bolívar's past and Colombia's present. La Laguna del Soldado is the second in a series of three films that explore the intersection of oral narratives, political outcomes and the territories marked by Simón Bolívar's passage during the Colombian Liberation Campaign in 1819. The first completed part is Bicentenario (2021).