The Song of the Butterflies
The Song of the Butterflies is a 2020 Peruvian documentary film written, co-produced and directed by Núria Frigola Torrent in her directorial debut. It follows, an indigenous plastic artist from the Witoto people, who seeks to tell the dark past that his community faced as a result of the rubber boom in Peru.
Synopsis
Rember Yahuarcani is an indigenous plastic artist from the Witoto people who returns to his homeland, after passing through Lima, in search of inspiration, remembering the stories that his grandmother Martha López told him before she died. During the recording, Yahuarcani's grandmother is present through a sound file. Being one of the survivors of the "rubber massacre", she tells some dark passages in the history of her people in which they were enslaved, decimated and displaced to other places. Rember emphasizes the importance that these events and experiences of his ancestors cannot be forgotten, and that art has the possibility of keeping his culture alive.Narrators
- Rember Yahuarcani López
- Nereida López
- Santiago Yahuarcani
- Martha López