Jaime Miranda Bambarén
(Monumento Films)
Semillas 15 / 13 lunas /
/ Don Mariano
2019
Video / 07:11′
Colección MICROMUSEO
(“al fondo hay sitio”)

Derechos reservados (Copyright):
Jaime Miranda Bambarén

Transparencia (Disclosure):
este video entrelaza ficciones y datos reales
(this video interweaves fiction and fact)

Soliloquio performático vinculado al proyecto Semillas, de Jaime Miranda Bambarén.

Transcripción y traducción del monólogo:

“Don Mariano: Good morning. We are at the mayor’s house in Cajabamba, in an office he lent us to make our video.
This was my grandmother. She is conserved here, and my grandparents left many treasures. There are some treasures that have been left buried. It’s going to be quite a search, there, in the house where she lived before.
And now let’s toast with a glass of Satan’s water. Oh, this is so good, oh…

[Video dialogues]:

Don Mariano: No, but if they had shotguns you had kill them from afar.

Pancho: Yeah, but you had to reload it, it’s not like shooting a machine-gun. So, when they collected taxes and all that, if they were told no, they would wage war. When the Spaniards came they would say ‘hey, do not go with the Inca, come with us’.

[End of video dialogues]

Don Mariano: Here we are working, searching for my grandmother’s treasure. That is what we are working on. And here, in one of these places, is my grandmother’s treasure.

[Video dialogues]:

Old man: Over there, where the light is.

Roberto: Ok, Fabio, look, look there, Fabio. Around there, it’s around there, around here.

Roberto: That sounds like silver, Silver, silver

[End of video dialogues]

Don Mariano: The sound marks where the find is, that’s where the treasure must be.

[Video dialogues]:

Fabio: It cannot be any clearer.

Don Mariano: You can hear the sound. There is something there, yes there is.

Roberto: It’s easily more than a meter and a half deep.

Pancho: [with a greedy voice and look on his face]: Jaime.

Old man: Either I kill myself or I kill you, there was no one there.

[End of video dialogues]

Don Mariano: We rescue fallen trees, those that have fallen from old age. We rescue that wood.

[Video dialogues]:

Don Mariano: This eucalyptus field we are working on was sown in the times of Pizarro, the conquistador. Years ago. These trees are older than all the old people that have lived. They’re all gone, but these trees remain.

[End of video dialogues]

Don Mariano: There are places in Cajabamba, in Cajamarca, with wood that no one uses. There are old trees, they are from the times of the Incas, of Pizarro. They’re there, they’ve been planted there. And that’s what we look for.
We are always scouting rural areas searching for them. We are going to find the treasure with the help of my grandmother.
Ginsberg. And with the support of Warburg —he will give us support as well— we will find it. And with the support of Patton. Yes we are to find my grandmother’s treasure. It is a sure thing that we are going to find it.
My grandmother is going to help us search… where she left it. So it is, gentlemen!
And now, cheers, let’s drink the water of Satan, of Donald Trump. Let’s toast.
Damn this is good! This is the blood of the devil, of the Muqui.
And we have to find it, with this machine. We have to find the treasure. My grandmother is already here. She is going to help us. Where she buried all her treasures. That’s how we are going to work. That’s how we will find it.
Another bone. You shall shed light on the huge wealth still hidden under your native lands.
I have ethics when I search for the treasure. And we have to find it, silver and gold. We have to find the treasure to cure Mr. Juan, whose legs are not well. That’s what we are going to do to find it and heal Mr. Juan.
I’m a seeker of wood, of treasures, but I have morals and spirituality .
The Warburg style of thinking. Patton’s personality. Ginsberg’s delirium.
In the eighties I learned from the Master Ataucusi. He was the peaceful alternative to Shining Path.
I dreamt of an anaconda swallowing the Twin Towers.
Imagination is man’s divine embodiment. Let’s anoint these mountains with culture.
We are creating the center of the West here. We are the center and they are our zombies. We are the new Columbus and our spheres are La Pinta, La Santa Maria and La Niña.
I will split in halves whatever gets on my way. The vehemence. All this ancestral wood has been recovered by us. And my grandmother’s treasures are also around here.
It’s drinking from the water of Satan. These ancient tree logs. We see it there, what the Spaniards have planted, the ancient Conquistadors.
Muqui, you have to give me the treasure, my grandmother’s. All that is buried underneath is yours, but you have to give me those riches. They belong to us because they are on my grandmother’s land.
Ok, Muqui, listen to me. Because I have paid you, I have given you all you asked for. I have given you blood, a goat, I have given you everything you wanted. I have given you booze even. So you have to give it to me, ok?
Come on, Muqui”.