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The Labyrinth
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An inspired melding of fact and fiction: the notorious Colombian drug trafficker Evaristo Porras, at the height of his criminal ecstasy in the 1980s, built himself a mansion modelled on the one seen in the American TV soap opera Dynasty. Today it is a paltry ruin, merging into the surrounding forest – so Laura Huertas Millán, expert in “ethnographic fiction”, intercuts it with Dynasty footage. There is a further element in this intoxicating, 21-minute mix: a shadowy witness-survivor-narrator, Cristóbal Gómez Abel, telling the historic, Scarface-like tale of the Medellín cartel, relating his own nightmarish hallucinations. Like the cocaine, mansions and gangsters, this testimony, too, will fade away. © Adrian Martin September 2018 |
