Titles by Cecilia Vicuña

What Is Poetry to You

1980, 23:20 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on video, Spanish with English subtitles

Vicuña asks passersby on the streets of Bogotá – including fellow artists and poets, sex workers, children, a police officer, and a scientist – the question: "What is poetry to you?" The surprising answers she elicits reveal the richness of oral culture in Colombia.