TY - JOUR AU - Ruiz-Mendoza, Martin PY - 2022/10/21 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Violence, Affect, and the Promise of Reconciliation in Colombian Contemporary Cinema JF - A Contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos JA - A Contracorriente VL - 20 IS - 1 SE - Imaginarios culturales del presente en Colombia: nuevas perspectivas sobre la violencia en la producción cultural contemporánea DO - UR - https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/2242 SP - 125-150 AB - <p>This essay examines three Colombian films that explore affect as a way to articulate alternative modes of historical reconstruction. By establishing a dialogue between Víctor Gaviria's <em>Rodrigo D, No futuro</em> (1989), César Augusto Acevedo's <em>La tierra y la sombra</em> (2015), and Laura Mora's and <em>Matar a Jesús</em> (2017), this critical approach to violence in recent Colombian cinema traces the articulation of an ethical and aesthetic resistance to address the past as past, that is, as a dimension that must be collectively assimilated as overcome to inaugurate a new era of peace and national prosperity.&nbsp;</p> ER -