Juego, Niños y Cine Colombiano. La lúdica como táctica de supervivencia

Abstract

Although play is not limited to childhood, children are quickly associated with the act of playing. It may even be thought that children who do not play a significant piece of their childhood is taken away from them. To this extent, in this work, we review the way Colombian children play in recent years, in a socio-political context marked by war, which, in principle, seems to operate in a way that eliminates gambling. However, following the work of Huizinga, Caillois and Fink, we would like to think about the dynamics of the game without reducing it to an exclusively playful or peripheral practice for man. We believe that the game puts us on the track of the way in which the body of children creates a way of living, in any kind of context, no matter how adverse. To think about the game is to think about the way to create your own ecology that does not depend on the forms of socialization of the adult. Now, we will review the Colombian children’s game within the framework of Colombian cinema (a device that in itself is a game of masks) to highlight the traces of survival in poetic terms that children materialize, from the narratives that give them a path. And this, we believe, thanks to the fact that the game, in difficult situations (from war to the crisis at home), always supposes a form of creative resistance. To do this, we will analyze seven Colombian films that allow us to put into play the force of children’s play.