A paper tiger
(2007) - Documentary
Direction: Luis Ospina.
Production: Luis Ospina with the support of Proimágenes Film Fund.
Script: Luis Ospina based on an investigation by Lucas Ospina de Lucas Ospina, François Bucher y Bernardo Ortiz, with the collaboration of Carolina Sanín.
Cinematography: Luis Ospina.
Editing: Rubén Mendoza, Luis Ospina.
Sound: Luis Ospina.
Original Format: Mini DV.
Exhibition Format: Betacam Digital.
Duration: 114 minutes.
The life of Pedro Manrique Figueroa, a pioneer of collage in Colombia, is like an adventure novel that is both incomplete and contradictory. Taking his life and work as a pretext, this mockumentary takes the viewer on a journey through history from the year 1934 up until 1981, when the artist mysteriously disappeared from view. Un tigre de papel is itself a collage, where art and politics rub shoulders, and where truth and lies are placed side by side.