Dora Sena

Jorge Caballero

Colombia – Spain / 2020 / 6’

Dora Sena, Senator of the Colombian Republic, is a fictional character created by an artificial intelligence system from 1479 bills that are on hold on the Senate’s webpage between 2013 and 2020. Aiming to speed up the legislative processes, Dora Sena automatically generates new bills, in this case, related to the Covid-19 quarantine. In them, the use of swimming pools is lawed, for example, as well as games and hobbies, and animals are protected during the pandemic. The laws are mixed with recorded images before the health crisis that had already announced a dystopian reality. A stage of absurdity that gives rise to a thought-provoking space for a time in which governments, not a few times, went out of their minds. 

By Pedro Adrián Zuluaga

AWARDS/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Best National Short Film. Bogotá Short Films Festival 2020. Bogoshorts

Producers and Editing: Jorge Caballero | Photography: David Correa

CINEMATECA DE BOGOTÁ / Capital Theatre

Thursday, October 28th, 3:00 p.m.  

Available from October 26th to November 1st at Virtual Theatre MIDBO for Colombia.