INTERDIS GROUP: Galina Likosova, Hernán Humberto Restrepo

IFQ: What is the INTERDIS Group?

INTERDIS GROUP: The Audiovisual Research Group INTERDIS is an academic research group of the National University of Colombia, Medellin. INTERDIS was created in 2000 and its mission is to redeem, preserve and diffuse the Colombian musical patrimony, by means of documentary audiovisual production within the COLOMBIAN CHAMBER MUSIC project.During the past 11 years, INTERDIS has recorded more than 500 hours of exclusive audiovisual material with a great patrimony value of about 19 Colombian composers. The recordings were carried out in 27 cities within 10 countries. Galina Likosova and Hernan Humberto Restrepo are the directors of all the documentaries. Luis Carlos Rodriguez is the Thematic Adviser.

IFQ: What are the products of INTERDIS?

IG: The most important products are the documentaries and the live concerts.

IFQ: How many documentaries have you produced?

1. “The music is an ineffable clarity…” (2000-2002)

2. “CHIAROSCURO (the tragedy of a great musician)” (2001-2010)

3. “…TRAVELLER OF MY OWN…” (2000-2007)

4. “THREE COLORS OF TIME” (2001-2011)

5. “MEMORIES OF A BLIND MUSICIAN” (2000-2007)

6. “BLAS: the man and his legend” (2003-2009)

IFQ: Which are the features of your documentaries?

IG: First of all, we are researching about different composers at the same time and when we have a story, we edit the documentary. So every documentary has several years of maturation period.

We have no unique format for the documentaries. Everyone has its own narrative structure which depends on the music, on the composer´s personality, his life and environment. We used the traditional lineal structure in “TRAVELLER…,” dramatization in docudrama “MEMORIES…,” metaphor in “THREE COLORS…”. For example, in “BLAS: the man and his legend,” we used the reality technique.

The documentaries are open documents, which remain in our hard disk, in case some new information appears, we can reedit the documentary. Several documentaries have two versions already. The research never stops.

IFQ: What awards have you received?

IG: We have received 13 international and national awards:

“BLAS: the man and his legend”:

• BEST FILM / VIDEO in the Fine Arts Disciplines, XXIV Black International Cinema, Berlin,Germany, 2009

• BEST INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY, NYIFF, New York, USA, 2009

• BRONZE PALM AWARD (Documentary-International), MEXICO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Rosarito, México, 2010

• PREMIO NACIONAL DE PERIODISMO SIMÓN BOLÍVAR, Categoría Mejor Emisión Cultural en Televisión, 2010

“…TRAVELLER OF MY OWN…”:

• BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Documental), NYIFF, Los Angeles, USA, 2006

• PREMIO NACIONAL DE PERIODISMO SIMÓN BOLÍVAR, Categoría Mejor Emisión Cultural en Televisión, 2008

• BEST DOCUMENTARY INTERNATIONAL, International Youth Film Festival, Port Talbot, South Wales, UK, 2010

“CHIAROSCURO “:

• PREMIO INDIA CATALINA 2010 , BEST UNIVERSITY PRODUCTION, 26º Concurso de la TVColombiana, 50° Festival Internacional de Cine y TV de Cartagena.

• BEST FILM / VIDEO Documentary Production, XXV Black International Cinema, Berlin,Germany, 2010

“MEMORIES OF A BLIND MUSICIAN”:

II Festival de Cine de Oriente, Rionegro, Colombia, 2008:

• BEST PHOTOGRAPHY

• BEST SCREENPLAY

• BEST DIRECTOR

• BEST DOCUMENTARY

Our web site: www.interdis.unalmed.edu.co