Born in Casablanca in 1944 and the nation's pupil, Joëlle de la Casinière lived in Madrid until 1947, and then in Paris, where she grew up in a bourgeois family until 1965. In 1970, she went to South America, where she stayed until 1976 and passed through Cusco, Lima, Barranquilla, Popayan, and San Jose, Costa Rica. She directed films with an ethnographic aspect, very infused with the Beat culture. Since 1992, she has lived on a barge and circulates through European canals and rivers continuing her artwork with graphic poetry. Cargadores shows the carriers in the streets of Cuzco, carrying huge merchandise packages on their backs. The camera follows them one by one, as so many allegories of the human condition inspired by Goya.