This is no IMDB, I am just poking around on YouTube, and found a few things. things seem to fall into three categories. Mamo worship, a kind of new age interest in the Natives of the Sierra, Shots from Airplanes or Airplane cockpits, and tourist stuff from Minca and the Ciudad Perdido..
Actually a friend of mine, after I told him I was poking around here, sent me this, since he was actually hanging out with a guy in Mexico at the time who happened to be one of the few ‘Civilizados’ who live in the sierra.. it was a neat coincidence.. the guy lived above Palomino, and was just taking a vacation to explore Mexico sometime around New Years of 2013. This guy who rented from my buddy Ozzy in Mexico for a few weeks, just happened to come by, actually knew some of the civilizados I met on my first excursion, who do live quite remotely, a days walk from the nearest drivable road, on the north flanks of the Sierra..
all this serendipity shouldn’t necessarily act as an endorsement of some of the cheesyness of this video, it’s a bit 80’s new age, actually, 1992 it turns out, but it’ the sierra, and this seems to be a good insight into some Kogi culture, since they seem to have been able to find a competent translator:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2tIVwGwiDc
To show how I kind of end up scraping the bottom of the Barrel pretty quickly when it comes to good documentation of the Sierra, here is an Italian film trailer with some good footage:
here’ some other stuff off of YouTube.. perhaps a bit like me, this guy could use some fact checking, but his comments are somewhat interesting, as are his blue (green!?) beard and zeal!
He actually references the above movie, which he says was made by a BBC director..
Here are two good examples of the genre of footage from planes transiting the Sierra, kind of proof that everyone is a bit surprised to see it there, and it puts in relief the idea that no one really has filmed from above treeline that I can tell:
One of them shows what appears to be the 5 blue lakes, and also demonstrates that the high peaks appear to be quite inhospitable as well as perhaps not of the best rock quality.
I did, by the way, do an IMDB search, just out of guilt for writing that I hadn’t when it is just a few key strokes away, and it turns out the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta has two somewhat obscure references.. to use a concept from the book the Moviegoer, not many places are left un-certified by the rapacious appetite of the film industry, but unlike nearby Cartagena, it wasn’t exactly in a fantastic blockbuster like Romancing the Stone (c’mon, you loved that movie.. Turner and Douglas, what more could you ask for?!)
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?locations=Sierra%20Nevada%20de%20Santa%20Marta,%20Magdalena,%20Colombia
Here’s some short film that IMDB didn’t directly connect to the Sierra:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2201808/