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00:00Can you start off by introducing yourselves, what are your names, where are you from?
00:14Hi my name is Ina Hurtado and I am from Peru, originally I represent the Coyhaique Foundation.
00:21We submitted a video here about a song, 600 year old, so we're very happy that it got
00:29an honorable mention, thank you for the interview.
00:33My name is Jose Hurtado, I am from Peru and I am very happy to be able to have this opportunity
00:52to be at the event in Berlin and also to share with you.
00:56My name is Jose Hurtado, I am a computer scientist, I do policy but I am also a musician
01:04and I am very glad to have come here and to have gotten nominated with an honorable mention
01:11and nothing but great things to say about this festival, thank you.
01:15You mentioned the song is 600 years old, can you explain what it's about, what the meaning
01:19has?
01:21This song talks about migration back in the time of Pachacote, the Inca Pachacote, this
01:27is way before the Spaniards arrived, it is a very important piece for us because it talks
01:33about our history, a history that is usually not told among ourselves because most of it
01:39was told from the Spaniards point of view and so it is a great honor to have been able
01:49to record it.
01:51My sister did her PhD on it, my father is actually the one who inherited the song from
01:56his parents and he brought it together, so yes.
02:01The song is also in Quechua, why was it so important for you to use the native language
02:07for the song and not try to reach a wider audience maybe with Spanish?
02:13I think for us in this day and age where we are having problems like climate change that
02:20our society has yet to have answers for, so we think that we know based on some UN reports
02:27that the knowledge to save the planet is within the native communities and that's why we think
02:33that it's important to validate that knowledge, to understand how the world was encoded in
02:41that language, so that's why we think it's important not only for our sake, not only
02:45because we think it's amazing or cool to be part of our ethnic groups, but because we
02:51think some of the answers for today's society are embedded in those languages and we need
02:59to look more to native languages that are getting lost at a rate that's even higher
03:06than some species, so to us it should coordinate from that angle.
03:20Could you maybe talk about the symbolism in the song?
03:36Yes, we use symbols, we are of a very symbolic origin and we try to show in a conceptual way
03:46the fact that our life and our vision is woven with everything, it's quite holistic,
03:53we are related to everything, so the silos represent that blood that we have that unites us
04:00against the space between us and the situations, and also the fact that we can represent
04:08in a modern way our stories, our vision, because in the part where we come from,
04:16those stories are told with a lot of external influence, but we have a lot of knowledge
04:22from there that is being forgotten, so from there we try to represent that union, that
04:28part of our blood that is always there connecting us, so that's a bit of the representation.
04:42You're also here representing the foundation, your foundation, can you explain a little
04:46bit what the foundation is and what is the goal of the project?
04:49Yes, the foundation was created by my family, we are five siblings and my parents, we actually
04:57founded it when we escaped political turmoil in the 90s and we arrived to Miami with basically
05:04nothing, and so we had to sing in the streets for money to survive, all these things that
05:11we had to go through gave us such a sense of who we were and what our music gave us,
05:20how also the people from outside saw us, and so this richness, this awareness, we eventually
05:30created it into a foundation because we want to share it with other people from the Andean
05:35cultures so that we can give the value that it has.
05:40Beautiful, can you talk a little bit about the festival, why is it important to you to
05:45submit your video to PESCOS and get more people to see it?
05:49I think, you know, we understand that to see faces like ours in different spaces are important
05:56because of representation, and once again, circling back to, it's good to look at problems,
06:03it's good to look at genres, at festivals from different perspectives, and we believe
06:07that our point of view is an important point of view, and to see the world through our
06:14own lens is an important contribution to that society.
06:18Not to say that our point of view is better than others, but it's just an important part
06:22that, you know, as a scientist, if you look at problems from different angles, it only
06:29helps you make better decisions, right?
06:32So, more informed decisions, that I think from, in Western society, we have kind of
06:41a specific point of view, and that's what we find ourselves with, once again, problems
06:45like global warming, and such problems, so that's what we think is important.
07:00Do you have anything else you would like to say about the video, anything you want to
07:03get to people who may be watching?
07:06Well, I think that, first of all, I want to say hello to all the people who are watching
07:12us, I hope that our people are also watching us, the Andeans, and to be able to mention
07:18that our stories have to be told, we have to keep talking about our context, I think
07:23that spaces like this help to spread the fact of a faster language, which are video clips,
07:28right?
07:29I know that cinema, short films, have a language that is a bit slower, more complicated,
07:35but now there are new media, like these two video clips, which can be much faster,
07:39they have spaces for diffusion, and they also promote, in a certain way, a connection
07:44with this new generation, which consumes faster, right?
07:49It's much more interpretative, and this, well, let's not forget that the concept,
07:55the symbolism in our culture, which is Quechua, is a very, very metaphorical language, so
08:02I think it's much more practical for us to speak from our language, which is the metaphor,
08:06through our images.
08:07That's it, and thank you very much for Armen Libris and Videowars for this opportunity.
08:11Can you maybe describe the awards in three words, the energy, the people, what do you
08:16see while you're here?
08:19I got nothing but great things to say about this festival, first of all.
08:23I think the atmosphere, the networking that we have done thus far has been nothing but
08:28sort of amazing, and I also find that it's not a very serious environment, that it lends
08:36itself to having a number of conversations, but, you know, amazing festival, so congrats
08:44to you all.
08:46Thank you very much.
08:48Yeah, I'm super excited to have made it here.
08:52I think the creativity is all over, and you get a lot of inspiration from sharing with
08:59all these creative humans, so thank you very much for the opportunity.
09:04I wanted to say something, like, we are a concept foundation, we're constantly looking
09:08for new voices, for people that are doing the right thing, that are taking care of their
09:13craft, that's why we helped him make it to this festival, and he was saying, like, how
09:18do I repay you guys?
09:20I was like, you look for the next person in line.
09:23You provide newer opportunities.
09:26When we saw, like, the way they work, super professional, from the conceptualizing of
09:33the film itself, from the work they do, and once again, going back to our native practices,
09:39how we can work with them doing Aini, which is an Andean communal work, that we don't
09:46even need to tell them, you do that, we understand each other, and we participate in that.
09:51So, to have come here out of that practice, that, nothing but great things to say about
09:58Chao Rose, which is a production company.
10:02So, all the best, and thank you for the interview.
10:05Of course, thank you very much.
10:08Well, three words.
10:10I'm very inspired.
10:12Inspired, very inspired.
10:14I think there's a lot of art that has nourished me and gives me strength to be able to propose
10:18about my vision.
10:20Very free.
10:21Very free.
10:22I think there are a lot of topics that are covered, and I like that because we get out
10:26of stereotypes.
10:28And artistic, because I think there's a lot of authenticity in each of the drafts that
10:32I've seen, and in the same event, it's great.
10:35Perfect.
10:36Thank you.
10:37Thank you so much.
10:38Thank you very much.
10:39The best.
10:40Good job.