Piece Description

Ayacucho was conceived as an attempt to balance the usual coverage of Latin America and specifically the Peruvian 2006 presidential elections. It is no secret that international news coverage is often reduced and simplified for the sake of brevity. I am not the one to debate whether that brevity is justified or not, and what are the causes and consequences of it. But with Ayacucho I tried to put things in a historical context (still only 26 years of history). By doing this many of the current events are better understood. The production of Ayacucho happened between the months of February 2006 and July 2006. In my hard drive remain many hours of voices and sounds that did not make it in, as well as many pages of narration and feelings that were slowly cut. The product is a balance between a personal documentary, a political documentary and a documentary with a format that allows its distribution. As usual, this piece has more emotions attached than one should probably allow. I am hoping that the audience, will find them.