- Hands of earth, crystal eyes, ancestral bridge through time, gender and race. Immortal humble wise noble warrior. Queen of bamboo's sounds and silence. Felt around and not just as an echo. Resisting beating African Diaspora. Inspiration to continue each battle. Resonating spirit: Belen.
- BELÉN, humble cocoa farmer and musician from a small Afro-Venezuelan village, a woman who appears to be just a tiny local reference but whos everyday struggles and engagements on basic survival (as an example of many other in society) reveal, with unpretentious and positive simple acts, the keys to approach, feel and understand complex issues on human values, spirituality, gender and race, centerpiece of the vast extended family of the African American community. A story about the consequences of experiencing a profound kind of inspiration, the inspiration that one woman, unaware of her powers, motivated in people all over the American continent during her life, and continues generating after her death.
A trip into the puzzled reminiscences of this woman's life, the supreme ritual of her death and the endless traces of her posterity and actual presence, moved by the drum beat of bamboo. An unusual portrait that overcomes temporality, gives space to the representation of memory and the act of remembering itself. An active path to understanding the power of modest, spiritual, dignifying and authentic actions in social transformation.
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