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Oscar-Nominated ‘Bestia’ Director Hugo Covarrubias’ Debut Feature ‘Baptism’ Boarded by Vivement Lundi! (EXCLUSIVE)
Vivement Lundi! joins Pista B on Hugo Covarrubias' 'Baptism,' a feature debut blending family memories and political trauma in 1980s Chile.
“Baptism” draws on VHS footage from Covarrubias’ family archive, telling the story of his childhood against the backdrop of Chile’s dictatorship and the AIDS-related death of a close relative. As a producer, I like to combine animation, historical and political topics, and after working on movies like ‘Flee’ by Jonas Poher Rasmussen or ‘No Dogs or Italians Allowed’ by Alain Ughetto, I was looking for such an ambitious and exciting project. I like the dirtiness and the rawness and the punkness of this kind of animation.” The upcoming works mix genres heavily, combining horror, satire and surrealism, generally crafted with unconventional materials ranging from thermoplastics to found objects, with some animated using DIY techniques like heat-gun distortion or analogue-video layering.
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