About the Film Los colores de la montana and Historical Memory in Colombia

This article presents a proposal for the construction of the historical memory of a nation from the analytical treatment of its audiovisual narratives. This is shown as a documentation strategy that allows recovering social traumas from the latest past, based on a comprehensive reading of the constitutive elements of the narrative. This model is applied to the analysis of the filmic text Los Colores de la Montana (2011), by Carlos Cesar Arbelaez. The results demonstrate that agrarian violence continues in the nation, attended to aggression and fear, producing as a main effect that the subjects live without identity in multiple territories and in cyclical times that are recurrent as an exile social symptom.