Requiem NN (2013), a film by Colombian artist Juan Manuel Echavarría, documents this practice, providing a stunning testimony of a community’s resilience and advancing fundamental questions about the relationship between mourning, memory, ethics, and representation in the context of extreme violence. But instead of letting them pass along they chose to rescue and adopt them. For years, its inhabitants watched unidentified corpses, known as NNs, float down its waters. ![]() ![]() Puerto Berrío is a small town on the banks of the Magdalena River, Colombia.
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