Colombian Film: UN TIGRE DE PAPEL | Proimágenes Colombia

Synopsis

Pedro Manrique Figueroa, Colombia’s pioneering collage artist, has never had a biographer. The reason is simple: his life, like an adventure novel, is both incomplete, contradictory, and constantly linked to the sparkling uncertainties of oral tradition. Framed around Manrique Figueroa’s life and work, the film takes us on a journey through history from 1934 to 1981, the year when the artist mysteriously disappeared from public view. A Paper Tiger is itself a collage, in which art and politics rub shoulders, where truth and lies are placed side by side, where documentary and fiction intermingle.