Pacho, el archivo visual Filming Locations
Where was Pacho, el archivo visual filmed? Pacho, el archivo visual was filmed in 2 locations across Colombia in the following places:
Pacho, el archivo visual Filming Locations
Bucaramanga is the capital of the department of Santander, in north-central Colombia. Framed by the Cordillera Oriental range of the Andes, it’s known for many parks, including Parque del Agua, with waterfalls and fountains, and the palm-lined Parque García Rovira. In the city center is the towering Catedral de la Sagrada Familia and the centuries-old, whitewashed Capilla de los Dolores, a significant chapel.
San Gil is a small Andean city in northern Colombia, straddling the River Fonce. It’s known as a center for adventure sports. Facing Parque Principal, the main square, is the 18th-century Cathedral of Santa Cruz. The riverside Gallineral Park has trees hung with curtains of silvery moss, and offers access to white-water rapids. East of town is Balneario Pozo Azul, a natural pool with big stone slabs and waterfalls.
Pacho, el archivo visual (2023)
A couple of years ago, after my brother's death in 2013, I stumbled upon some undeveloped 35 mm film at my mother's home in Colombia. Once I developed the negatives, besides family pictures, birthdays, and first communions, I found a black and white series of photographs that Pacho had taken during a photography class, while he was doing his undergraduate studies in graphic design. The developed black and white negatives produced stills of Pacho with a group of friends taking pictures of themselves in a studio, and stills of architecture photos in the towns of San Gil, Barichara and Guane in the Province of Santarder, Colombia, towns very close to my home town and well known for its colonial homes and picturesque cobblestone roads. The documentary reenacts 11 of those stills, while we listen to his friends talk about their experience of friendship with Pacho during those university years. These interviews shed a new light on my brother as a friend, as a student, as the young man that I left behind when I left the country in 2005.