Little Voices
by Jairo Eduardo Carrillo

Monday, July 28, 4 – 6 p.m.
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building 313, Free

Little Voices is a video game experience based on interviews and drawings of a new generation of children (8 to 13 years old) who have grown up displaced by the violence and chaos of the Colombian Civil War; the interviews show how they perceive their reality. These stories are illustrated and animated based on original drawings by these children and presented in an interactive environment that Carrillo constructed during his residency at the Banff New Media Institute.

Jairo Eduardo Carrillo is a Colombian artist who is currently on the faculty of the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota. He lived in England for seven years, where he lectured at several universities and collaborated with the London Symphony Orchestra to produce the digital interactive animation “3D Music.” The New York Times acclaimed this piece, calling it “a fortunate hybrid between a fantasy video game and a fantasy Disney movie.” Carrillo has co-directed two feature nationally distributed films in Colombia, Dead With Fear and God Brings Them Together and They Separate. The 2003 animated documentary version of “Little Voices” was the winner of eight international prizes.