"It Happened in My Childhood" is a memory exercise from the traveling exhibition "Youth, Memory, and Territory," developed at the Children’s Audiovisual School of Belén de los Andaquíes, Caquetá, Colombia.
In Colombia, we have a long history of ways to narrate war, embodied by many artists and witnesses, using various "practices," including forms of storytelling that lie between the documentation of horror and the creation of narrative methods.
Belén de los Andaquíes, a municipality in the Amazonian foothills founded in 1917 by a Capuchin missionary who could not imagine that this place south of Caquetá would become a land of various colonizations, and of the movement and conflict between armed groups. All camouflaged, all with weapons, they exploded into the life, the daily life and the games, of the boys and girls who were growing up in Belén, both in the urban areas and the surrounding villages. In the 70s and 80s, the M-19 guerrillas arrived and at the end of the 90s and beginning of the 2000s, the paramilitaries.
