Carlos Mayolo

The Manor of Araucaima (1986)

In an old and mysterious tropical mansion cohabit the supposed owner, a friar, a convalescent pilot, the Haitian servant, the mercenary guardian and the Machiche, a mature and dominant female. A young model arrives there to unleash all kinds of passions. ...

Aquel 19 (1985)

Cali, Calido, Calidoscopio (1985)

Documentary aspects of the city with old archive shots that allude to the "450 years of the founding of Cali." A parallel is drawn between the memory of the past salvageable in photographs and the visual freshness of the present printed in each of its mani ...

Bloody Flesh (1983)

August 6, 1956 during the military dictatorship of Rojas Pinilla. A military convoy loaded with dynamite explodes in the center of Cali, destroying a good part of the traditional buildings of the city and exposing the roots of some houses that for years ha ...

The Vampires of Poverty (1978)

Two filmmakers travel around impoverished sectors of the cities of Bogotá and Cali in search of the images of abjection needed to complete a documentary commissioned by German TV. Meanwhile, another camera captures these "vampire" filmmakers feeding off t ...

Asunción (1975)

The vengeance of a housemaid against the family that hired her. ...

Rodilla negra (1975)

In this short film, the title of which translates as "Black Knee", a team of football players (played by members of the Barrios Unidos Cali team) encounter a pair of skinnydipping hippies out in the fields and steal their transistor radio. This seems to t ...

La Hamaca (1975)

An outcast looks for a glass of water in the house of a single woman, he notices that she is industrious yet repulsive and resolves¸ under the guise of love¸ to exploit her as a servant. After some drunkenness and beatings¸ the woman decides to take rev ...

Contamination is... (1974)

The sectors studied are the Yumbo industrial complex (the rainbow of pollution), which threatens to create a fence of smoke and pestilence around the city of Cali. The Mamonal complex (Bahía de Cartagena) and the garbage of the big cities. The film, depen ...

Cali: de Película (1973)

A 13 minute glimpse of the Feria de Cali celebrated between Christmas and New Year… A carnival of commodity fetishism, red devils and white indians that will be recognizable to anyone who has encountered the surrealist ethnographies of Michael Taussig. ...

Listen, Look! (1972)

Documentary about the effects of the VI Panamerican Games in the city of Cali, seen from the point of view of the people that couldn't get into the stadiums. ...

Angelita y Miguel Ángel (1971)

Two young people from the wealthy class who meet and complement their lives by filling the holes that they themselves had created within themselves. A film that mixes innocence, surrealism, comedy, drama and psychosis. ...

Monserrate (1970)

A visit to the Monserrate church in Bogota ...

Iglesia de San Ignacio (1970)

This is a somewhat irreverant look at the Church of San Ignacio (Saint Ignatius of Loyola) in Bogata. Established in the 17th century by the Jesuit order, it is a building of lavish baroque interior and exterior edifices and statuary. The film examines t ...

La Quinta de Bolívar (1969)

In this early short, Mayolo takes viewers on a visit to the estate of Simon Bolívar in Bogotá where stately memory and crass commercialism collude to obscure what Bolivarismo was supposed to be? ...

A Ballad for Dead Children (2020)

'A Ballad for dead children' is a tribute to Andrés Caicedo and Cali and it's group, as the seed of a cinematographic phenomenon, but it goes one step further. Testimonies and fragment readings compose, together with a very powerful archive material, the ...

It All Started at the End (2015)

An intimate portrait of the pioneering artistic collective Grupo de Cali, whose work is now considered a fundamental part of Colombia's film history. ...

A Paper Tiger (2008)

The life of Pedro Manrique Figueroa, a pioneer of collage in Colombia, 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 a ...

Cobra Verde (1987)

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is the notorious bandit and impressed by his ruthless ways, Don Octávio hires Cobra ...

Mi alma se la dejo al diablo (1987)

The Manor of Araucaima (1986)

In an old and mysterious tropical mansion cohabit the supposed owner, a friar, a convalescent pilot, the Haitian servant, the mercenary guardian and the Machiche, a mature and dominant female. A young model arrives there to unleash all kinds of passions. ...

Andrés Caicedo: A Few Good Friends (1986)

Using the unfinished film, ANGELITA Y MIGUEL ÁNGEL, by Andrés Caicedo and Carlos Mayolo, as a structuring device, friends of prolific film critic and writer Andrés Caicedo, an unforgettable figure of the group of Cali in the 1970s who left an incredible ...

In Search of Maria (1985)

Based on the only four surviving shots of the first Colombian silent film, MARÍA (1921), by directors Máximo Calvo (Colombia) and Alfredo del Diestro (Spain), IN SEARCH OF 'MARIA' combines historical research, interviews, and scenic reconstruction to res ...

Bloody Flesh (1983)

August 6, 1956 during the military dictatorship of Rojas Pinilla. A military convoy loaded with dynamite explodes in the center of Cali, destroying a good part of the traditional buildings of the city and exposing the roots of some houses that for years ha ...

Pure Blood (1982)

Roberto Hurtado suffers from a rare disease that requires massive transfusions of blood from children or adolescents. His son blackmails three employees to get blood for him and they resort to unscrupulous methods to obtain it. ...

The Vampires of Poverty (1978)

Two filmmakers travel around impoverished sectors of the cities of Bogotá and Cali in search of the images of abjection needed to complete a documentary commissioned by German TV. Meanwhile, another camera captures these "vampire" filmmakers feeding off t ...