about

Bureaucratic violence, families facing hunger and the president in red spandex, as seen through a single mother and her six years-old child in the midst of the Venezuelan crisis.

Bigote or (The Happy Anarchy Of Bureaucracy) is a narrative short film and graphic novel, based on real events.

Bigote stands as a response to media’s sensationalism of Venezuelan representation.

By re-enacting an official state-sanctioned cartoon, Bigote questions the broader role of film as a tool for distraction and its ability to affect an individual’s capacity to think critically. As the latter fades rapidly within our current political landscape, the gap grows between what the collective subconscious expects propaganda to look like and its multifaceted nature.
Television, toys and comics are used as vessels of soft power to shape societal behavior and global perception by introducing propaganda that looks like childhood under the guise of innocence and entertainment; while our favorite sitcoms disguise bully behavior as humor, beloved superheroes claim patriotism by punching Aliens.

Through the exploration of lesser-known events leading up to today’s situation, Bigote proposes a different approach to depicting humanitarian crises by focusing on a universal third form of violence: bureaucracy.