Los hiperbóreos

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)