Jose Carlos Rivera

San Roque is a small village in the northern cloud forest bordering the Amazonia. In order to reach the village of San Roque people must travel one hour by motorized vehicle (mostly motorcars) up the mountain range that surrounds the main city of Tarapoto. This road was unpaved one year ago, and before, people could only pass by foot or mule carrying goods. The old path that people used to walk is no longer maintained, lost to vegetation and covered up by the new road. Now it is the only connection and the motorcar almost the only form of transportation.

In Walking a moon, Jose Carlos Rivera walks the old path to Tarapoto both ways carrying basic equipment in a backpack. He records the action with a camera and surveys a map of the road by hand.
In El motocarro, Rivera installs the video of the walk in a modified motorcar where people can sit inside and watch the steps through the road, creating a dichotomy between the two times: the local tradition versus one of the first steps toward globalization.