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The doors of Navarro, the dumping site of the city of Cali for more than 30 years, have just been closed: inside, a mountain of waste where used to work every day more than 1.200 people; outside 1200 men and women looking for a new place to work, and a whole city celebrating the future dumping site far away from the city. For the “environmentalists” the mountain of waste was a place of contamination, but for Navarro´s recyclers this place was their sustenance. The creative documentary THE MOUNTAIN IS FALLING DOWN portrays through its characters a community which is stigmatized for its proximity to garbage when most part of the society thinks that recollecting rubbish more than an economic possibility is associated to the disgusting. As a memory, remains a mountain of waste closed; as a wound, the image of the ones looking at the mountain waiting to find a new place to work; and as a present, the hope that tomorrow will be better than today and that the political promises become true.

The topic of garbage has always been seen and handled from the stigmas of the undesirable, the infectious and the ugly. In THE MOUNTAIN IS FALLING DOWN, we are looking for a sight somehow poetic and aesthetic to produce other sensations… without making an apology of the garbage nor ignoring the difficult labor conditions of recyclers. It is rather an intent of reaching some kind of contemplative look on the space where the waste of the city arrives to and where the activity of recycling takes place.

The voices of Gloria and Edgar will be the only narrators of the documentary, thus building a discourse from the narrative and the descriptive, getting to the insightful. This way, the particular -the life of those characters in Cali- is connected with more general aspects related to the environmental policies, the social and labor industry of the solid residues, the working conditions and the chain of the consumption, among others.

Both structure and treatment always have a cyclic form in which the point of departure is at the same time the point of arrival in a coming and going from the mountain to the city with its consumptions, its routines and its indifference.

The closed mountain will be like a “ghost town” in which the echo of the voices is listened and the sounds of the past activities can still be heard. The evolution of the process of the seal of the landfill of Navarro will mark the passage of time. To the transformation of Navarro, from a block of residues to a green mountain, it will constantly be related to the adaptation of the life of the recyclers.

ANGELA OSORIO y SANTIAGO LOZANO are Social CommunicatorS of the Universidad del Valle Colombia). Together they directed in 2003 the documentaries Calígula and A name for a men out of place (Un nombre para desplazado) for Señal (Colombia), an educative and cultural Colombian channel. In 2005 they directed the long feature documentary Trip of drums (Viaje de tambores) for ATEI (Iberoamerican Television Association). Their individual works have received prices like Vidarte 2002 in Mexico with the experimental video Serie Inmoviles directed by Angela and the price Ojos Nuevos 2006 organized by the Andino Parliament with the documentary Silo-vé, un niño (Silove, a child perspective) directed by Santiago, this work received an honours mention at the Festival Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces (México).

DIRECTOR	Angela Osorio y Santiago Lozano
PRODUCTION COMPANIES	AntropoDocus Producciones (Spain) y Contravía Films (Colombia)
RUNNING TIME	60min.
SHOOTING FORMAT	HD
COUNTRY	Cali - Colombia

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