Yugo
TITLE
Yugo
DIRECTOR
Carlos Gómez Salamancar
COUNTRY
Colombia
YEAR
2021
DURATION
10′
GENRE
Animation
Overview

Yugo
On a lifetime scale, YUGO questions the capitalist and liberal economic development of Latin America and its consequences on humans beings, through the environmental and societal changes it generates.

DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Carlos Gómez Salamanca
The work of Carlos Gómez Salamanca focuses on painting and audiovisual languages. In his recent works he reconstructs images and visual archives in order to create animations that explore, from a critical perspective, different social and culture aspects of his country. - CARNE, his first animated short film – launched in the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 2013 and awarded the Special Jury Prize in the Havana film Festival – is made of animated sequences that reveal isolated and tangential actions that take place around the sacrifice of an animal in a rural celebration. - LUPUS, his second audiovisual production, centers on a raw crime report in order to enter into the wild side of the city, demonstrating the relation between a pack of abandoned dogs that return to a wild state (wolves), and the uncontrolled expansion of urbanization in their native city. - YUGO explores the relationship between work, economy and illness in industrial environments of the suburbs in Bogota. He was part of the International Jury in Festival Annecy, FR (2021),La Havana,CU (2018), and ANIMASIVO in Mexico City (2018).
Credits
- Director Carlos Gómez Salamanca
- Screenplay Carlos Gómez Salamanca
- Cinematography
- Editing Jean-Marie Le Rest
- Cast Benigno Numeque, Maria Camila Rubiano
- Producer/s Jean-François Bigot, Camille Raulo, Juan Pablo Gómez Salamanca, Edwina Liard, Nidia Santiago
- Production Company Ikki Films, JPL Films, Nocroma
- Distributor/s
Specifications
- Project Title Yugo
- Project Type Animation
- Completion Date July 15, 2021
- Country of origin France
- Country of filming Colombia, France
- Language Spanish
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project No

Carlos Gómez Salamanca
The work of Carlos Gómez Salamanca focuses on painting and audiovisual languages. In his recent works he reconstructs images and visual archives in order to create animations that explore, from a critical perspective, different social and culture aspects of his country. - CARNE, his first animated short film – launched in the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 2013 and awarded the Special Jury Prize in the Havana film Festival – is made of animated sequences that reveal isolated and tangential actions that take place around the sacrifice of an animal in a rural celebration. - LUPUS, his second audiovisual production, centers on a raw crime report in order to enter into the wild side of the city, demonstrating the relation between a pack of abandoned dogs that return to a wild state (wolves), and the uncontrolled expansion of urbanization in their native city. - YUGO explores the relationship between work, economy and illness in industrial environments of the suburbs in Bogota. He was part of the International Jury in Festival Annecy, FR (2021),La Havana,CU (2018), and ANIMASIVO in Mexico City (2018).
SELECTIONS & AWARDS

Tirana International Film Festival
New World, Panorama Competition, 2022