Pichqa minutukuna ilaqtanchispi wanuqkunamanta

Composed of one single crane shot Pichqa minutukuna ilaqtanchispi wanuqkunamanta or Fem minuter för Amerikas döda (1992) is an intense five minute meditation on the European colonization of America and its victims. It was intended as a counter image of the ongoing 500 years anniversaries at the time.

César Galindo was born in Peru in 1948 and is a trained architect. He studied film in Paris and later on settled in Stockholm, Sweden. The film was shot at the cemetery of Villa María del Triunfo in Lima.