Javier Olarte is an Associate Professor at the Film School of the Fine Arts Faculty at the National University of Colombia where he has been a faculty member since 2000. Professor Olarte received a Bachelor in Communication and Media; then a Bachelor in Film Studies; in 2006 an Specialization in Multimedia Design and Development; in 2012 Magister in Cultural Studies. He is currently studying his Ph program in Creation and Design at Universidad de Caldas.
His research and artistic projects are focused in issues like: Internal displacement in Colombia; Resilience movements through art languages; visual narratives, transmedia and alternative models of storytelling; art and early childhood; montage as storytelling at film in Latin America. He has been invited to give academic task in art and early childhood at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2015; at Channel 10 in San Salvador he was invited to participate like advice counselor in media, transmedia and montage methods; also alternatives film production in La Femis (France); at Avanca Cinema in Portugal speech about Early childhood in Colombian cinema and Ettore Scolla films; in Decolonialism and neocolonialism in Latin America at Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Professor Olarte has been made visual projects that try to cross the borderline between arts and social science expressing his ideas through film, video and experimental moving images.
Two of his last works are: Verde, the most recent, is an expanded documentary based in three formats: concert, installation and documentary. It tell story and draw the relation between nature resources and two cases of civil conflict’s victims in Colombia. Inhabit the body is a documentary that describe the story of four groups of citizen that lives in different regions of Colombia, who were displaced by violence. The film give voice to those victims of the conflict that could get understanding of their tragedy and share their feelings through art.
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