LOS HIPERBÓREOS THE HYPERBOREANS

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Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León, Chile 2024, 71 Min., Spanish with English subtitles

Introduction by Galo E. Rivera. Screening followed by a conversation with the protagonist Antonia Giesen (in Spanish)

An unruly journey to the unexplored depths of collective memory and Chile’s political history.
“We humans are capable of greatness”: This is the ominous opening line–voiced from an old TV set showing a hypnotic, spinning wheel–of The Hyperboreans. Delving into the highly controversial, madcap ideas of 20th-century Chilean right-wing thinker Miguel Serrano, it weaves together strands from Chile’s history, the occult, conspiracy theory, Jungian psychology, religious symbolism, and silent film. Crafted from a singular mix of live action, stop-motion animation, puppetry, and 3D, the viewer is drawn into an immersive psychodrama. Despite the daunting complexity of these disparate elements, León and Cociña unify them through a formidable technical mastery that must be seen to be believed. (BH)

Antonia Giesen is an actress and clinical psychologist. She began her acting career in 2016 with her first television project, going on to participate in various film, television and series projects. She won two Caleuche Awards in Chile: “Best Supporting Actress” in a television series in 2019, and “Best Leading Actress” in a film in 2021 for her performance in El hombre del futuro. For this role, she also received the “Special Jury Mention for Best New Artist” award at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic in 2019. Her latest feature film, Los Hiperbóreos by León & Cociña, premiered at the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024.

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