Rísquez’s use of symbolism & neo-classicist cinematography created a extraordinary multilayered representation of the “discovered” lands, as well as cultural anthropology. Always remaining with a strongly dreamlike/poetic atmosphere, even the brutalisation of colonialism is represented in a figuratively rather than in a violently graphic manner, through dreams & visions the “new world” was conceived.
Rísquez’s use of symbolism & neo-classicist cinematography created a extraordinary multilayered representation of the “discovered” lands, as well as cultural anthropology. Always remaining with a strongly dreamlike/poetic atmosphere, even the brutalisation of colonialism is represented in a figuratively rather than in a violently graphic manner, through dreams & visions the “new world” was conceived.