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This is not your Garden

Rooted in wetlands, páramos and centennial forests at the verge of disappearing, memories and a speculated future collide. 500 years of exploitation, exile and resilience are nourished by a collective pain and a desire to crack through it all.

  • Carlos Velandia
    Director
    All my Scars Vanish in the Wind (2022, Oscar shortlisted), Woman as Image, Man as Bearer of the Look (2022, World Premiere at Annecy International Animation Festival)
  • Angélica Restrepo
    Director
    All my Scars Vanish in the Wind (2022, Oscar shortlisted)
  • Carlos Velandia
    Writer
  • Angélica Restrepo
    Producer
  • Carlos Velandia
    Producer
  • Espeletia grandiflora
    Key Cast
  • Quercus humboldtii
    Key Cast
  • Hypotrachyna laevigata
    Key Cast
  • Usnea sp.
    Key Cast
  • Eucalyptus globulus
    Key Cast
  • Taraxacum officinale
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Este no es tu jardín
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 53 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 30, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    Colombia
  • Country of Filming:
    Colombia
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • International Film Festival Rotterdam
    Rotterdam
    Netherlands
    February 1, 2025
    World Premiere
    Short & Mid-length
Distribution Information
  • experimenta
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Carlos Velandia, Angélica Restrepo

Colombian filmmakers with background in Film Programming and New Media, whose work focuses on anti-hegemonic representation and expanded animation. Their work has qualified for the 96th Academy Awards, BAFTA and Goya Awards – winning the Uppsala Award in Memory of Ingmar Bergman, as well as other awards such as the ZINEBI Grand Award and the ENCOUNTERS Animation Grand Prix. Their films have premiered several times at the Annecy International Animation Festival.

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Director Statement

This film is a temporal journey in the highlands of Bogota, Colombia, which follows the last 500 years of exploitation, exile and resilience of the flora that has historically inhabited this territory. Beginning in the pre-Columbian period of equilibrium between flora and other beings, this anti-anthropocentric report narrates in an expressive and abstract way the effects of colonial deforestation, the drying up of the land, the industrial flattening and the slow cracking of the contemporary city by the flora that has survived.