Administrative Law from Colombian Cinema: Two Women and a Cow and The Embrace of the Serpent

Abstract

The article is one of the results of the thesis entitled: Administrative law from the new constitutional context from the Colombian cinema: Two women and a cow (Bahamón, 2015) and Embrace of the snake (Guerra, 2015), carried out as final work for the Master's Degree in Administrative Law at the Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana. In the article, Cinema and Law are presented as two cultural productions of deep transcendence in current societies and, particularly, cinema approaches new views on various social, political and legal phenomena, which allows it to evidence nuances, readings and points of view. For this reason, the article aims to rethink Administrative Law using film analysis as a tool to decipher the connections between cinema and this legal discipline. To this end, two films are analyzed in order to make visible their connections with Administrative Law. In Two Women and a Cow (2015) it is evident that the film constitutes an interpellation from the seventh art to a society that does not recognize itself in the memory of the war it has suffered and to a State that does not effectively guarantee the vital securities, rights and properties of citizens. In the case of The Embrace of the Serpent (2015) the film constitutes a call for the State to promote a broader and holistic vision of nature that recognizes the integrality and co-dependence of all natural elements in the ecosystem. Both films make a call to the State that implies generating a paradigm shift, profoundly and fundamentally transforming public administration, orienting the vocation of public service to the common good.