Milton Cordoba
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0:16 - 0:19I remember the first time
was when I was seven -
0:20 - 0:23we went to a militar orchestra
and there was a band -
0:24 - 0:27and there was a funny
old man with a trumpet -
0:27 - 0:29he had a funny face
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0:30 - 0:32so I grabbed my notepad
and started to draw -
0:33 - 0:35
that day all my classmates
started to note my drawings -
0:35 - 0:37and I liked the idea
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0:43 - 0:46
I came to Buenos Aires
in the year 2004 -
0:46 - 0:49I had 15 Pesos and
the travel ticket -
0:50 - 0:52I bought the ticket with
the money I earned drawing -
0:53 - 0:56
Well, I arrived, sleept
two nights in the streets -
0:57 - 0:59and due to people
I met at parties -
0:59 - 1:04I got a job washing dishes
and delivering papers -
1:04 - 1:06and then I could pay
the college -
1:06 - 1:09there I got into the
arts a little more -
1:09 - 1:12and I was always
practising drawing -
1:13 - 1:18and in about three years I
was participating in exhibitions -
1:18 - 1:21I started to make street
interventions doing graffiti -
1:21 - 1:22with sprays
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1:22 - 1:24it was two years ago
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1:29 - 1:32
My life was like an
adventure -
1:32 - 1:35I mean experienced
the streets -
1:36 - 1:38living like a ghost
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1:38 - 1:40and then suddenly met
a lot of people and -
1:40 - 1:44feel so comfortable in
a place like Buenos Aires -
1:45 - 1:49which is a city for artists,
designers, filmmakers -
1:50 - 1:52It's a very attractive and
beautiful city -
2:20 - 2:23The streets give me the
feeling that the people -
2:23 - 2:28admire more a graffiti,
without knowing about arts, -
2:28 - 2:31than going to an exhibition
and I think the streets -
2:31 - 2:37basically the people, the
city's dynamic makes it -
2:37 - 2:40
wealthier and elevates
the work -
3:04 - 3:07
People should struggle
in life -
3:07 - 3:09
to get their eyes opened -
3:09 - 3:14
I mean basically we're
constantly get hit since -
3:14 - 3:16when we are young
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3:16 - 3:18and we get to know and
develop ourselves through -
3:18 - 3:22pain and changes that
provoke us to be different -
3:22 - 3:24people and have an
unique point of view -
3:25 - 3:28What happened to me
made me meet lots of people -
3:29 - 3:33and help them when I can,
if they want to -
3:33 - 3:37I learned that there's
nothing more important than -
3:37 - 3:39believing in people
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3:39 - 3:44
Beyond the mistakes
feel and love people -
3:44 - 3:49because life works this way
and also art -
3:49 - 3:52
Art is the only politic
that have no flag
- Title:
- Milton Cordoba
- Description:
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When he was 15 Milton left Entre Rios, his hometown, and arrived in Buenos Aires only with 15 Pesos in his pocket, after a big struggle with his parents.
He started using his drawings as a way to socializing and survive. This is the most important issue in his works, the art as gathering possibilities.
The drawing has broken his shyness and took him to know people and determined his future steps, discovering in graffiti and urban art a manner of politic instrument.
Today, Milton colaborates in exhibitions, paints and organizes collective wall murals, keeps colaborative works with latin american, european and american artists.
Credits
Directed and edited by Thiago Flausino
Produced by Isabela Kayo
Assistant producer: Elton Delgado
First Camera: José Viana
Second Camera: Erico MatosSoundtrack
Hotel - Quarto 203
Leonardo Facundo - Milonga de Mis AmoresSpecial thanks
Milton Cordoba and his friends
Dauana Parente
Julia Viana- Selected video in the Userfarm project "Ubiq -Create cool videos about cool people".
- Displayed in July 2012 in the channel RAI5 (Italian TV)
- Video Language:
- Spanish
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