4direcciones

About 4direcciones

4direcciones is a company devoted to high-quality audiovisual production and realization, specializing in cultural and environmental subjects. Its creators and directors are Diana Rico and Richard Decaillet, a solid duo of creative audiovisual artists with a long experience in the making of TV programs, documentaries, videoclips and videoart.

Manifesto

We believe that one should invoke the four sacred directions before beginning any project. We believe that everything that we think, say and do strongly resounds in the north, south, east and west. We believe in the four winds which carry the messages to every corner of the earth. We believe that the audiovisual media are a powerful tool of communication, a language in transformation, a good messenger, and, in some cases, a poor councilor.
We believe in audiovisuals as the result of a collective process of creation. We believe in the wisdom of every one of us who works here. We believe in the process of audiovisual creation as an exercise of memory. We believe that an audiovisual piece is not merely a document, nor a record, but the accompaniment of a process. It is never the end of something but perhaps the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
The beginning of a beautiful friendship
We believe that the past lies before us because can see it and are heading towards it, towards the memory of our ancestors. We believe in the present and in the future. We believe that the memory of America is reawakening after five hundred years of confusion. We believe that we should be witnesses and messengers of what has been told to us.
We believe in the strength with which this company is born.

• We believe that our experience speaks for itself

Richard Decaillet and Diana Rico have been working since 2003 in an informal collective of professionals in the arts, called El Vicio Producciones, which has developed exhibitions, documentaries, series, video-clips and contents for such communications media as television, cinema and internet. The projects undertaken have represented a great challenge in terms of investigation and realization because of the novel academic and experimental nature of their contents and their contributions to technological advances in that field.

• We believe that good as it is, anything can be improved

In 2006 Diana Rico and Richard Decaillet create 4direcciones.
4direcciones won an open competition (convocatoria Ley 344) sponsored by the Sena (Colombian Apprenticeship Service) and Colciencias (Colombian Institute of Sciences), which was aimed at the encouragement of technological innovation in cultural enterprises. It is now working on several cultural and environmental T.V. documentaries and series.

• We believe in Alliances

Together with the National Museum of Colombia, 4direcciones is directing and producing a project entitled “The B side of history” (Lado B de la historia), a series of twelve x 24-minute programs on Colombian history for RTVC. Its other projects include “Imagined Cities” (Ciudades Imaginadas), a series of thirteen documentaries about the visual aspects of 13 American and European cities in collaboration with the investigator Armando Silva and the Imaginarios Urbanos Foundation. A 50-minute documentary entitled “The Guardians of Freedom” (Los Guardianes de la Libertad), in alliance with the GAIA Amazonas Foundation, the Association of Indigenous Leaders of the Pirá Paraná (ACAIPI) and the Colombian National Natural Parks system, between others.

• We believe in what we are doing

Diana Rico and Richard Decaillet have established a crucial position in the Colombian cultural sector as a solid creative group, thanks to their recent experience in the direction and realization of a number of audiovisual projects, among which we find the following documentaries: “Bogotá Imagined” (Bogotá Imaginada) – Ministry of Foreign Relations, 2008; “That´s the way we Colombians are” (Los Colombianos tal como somos) – Tal TV, Brazil, 2006; El Vicio TV: “Especial Performance Festival in Cali” (Festival de Performance de Cali), for the Radio and Televisión from Colombia public channel (RTVC, 2006); and a ten-part television series for the Ministry of Culture, devoted to “Contemporary plastic art in Colombia”, which was shown on the Señal Colombia public channel in 2004. At the present time the latter represents the most important visual material about the teaching of art available to Colombian high schools and universities.