Coming Soon Beneath the Blindfold is a human rights documentary that tells the personal stories of four torture survivors from around the world. It is hoped that through the voices of these survivors, torture will not remain an abstract practice, but will become a part of our everyday conscious. Co-directed …
Three Days in Sangli , India March 26, 2008 When theater director, Sushama Deshpande first invited us to work with the sex workers from the VAMP* collective in Sangli we were filled with great excitement and anticipation. At Imaginaction we focus on working with marginalized communities using Theatre of the …
by Janice Kennedy, The Ottawa Citizen Twenty-five years after he landed in a Colombian torture ‘chamber,’ Hector Aristizabal has devoted his life to ending torture On a bare stage, armed with a few small props, Hector Aristizabal lures people into the darkest horror of his life. His one-man show is …
Dana Parsons, Los Angeles Times Torture is a juicy little lunchroom or talk radio subject. Should it be used? How would you react? How much could you take? But lunch ends and people go back to work. The radio host moves on to another topic. People get on with their …
by Joe Piasecki, Pasadena Weekly For Hector Aristizábal, the stage is a place of terror and rebirth. In 1982, soldiers took him and his brother, Juan Fernando, from their home in a war-torn Colombian village on suspicion of involvement with anti-government Marxist rebels. For a week they suffered physical and …
The Hindu ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ uses games and exercises to create images of a situation of oppression for the target audience. Hector Aristizabal — Photo: N. Balaji Theatre can be used to heal, to teach and to bring about change. So, Hector Aristizabal, a Colombian who now lives in …