Enrique Pedráza-Botero is a visual artist and filmmaker from Bogotá, Colombia. He was recently appointed to co-lead the Documentary Film Initiative at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School, working to support new research, analysis, innovation, and provocation around core issues facing the documentary field. He is currently developing his first feature film.
Much like the people it is about, No se ve desde acá is suspended in that stasis between arriving and finding belonging, moving associatively through observational vignettes in contemporary Miami, juxtaposed with a disruptive collection of video and sound archives that range as far back as the 1930’s, revealing an obsession with American individualism and collective uncertainty as questions arise for immigrants about cultural identity and economic opportunity.
No Se Ve Desde Acá will play as part of the Shorts Block: A Fever Dream Waiting for the Right Builders