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Original name: Los hiperbóreos
English name: The Hyperboreans
Year: 2024
Run time: 71 minutes
Language: Spanish, German
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour, Black & White
Country: Chile
Director: Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña
Producer: Catalina Vergara
Cast: Antonia Giesen, Francisco Visceral Rivera
Screenplay: Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña, Alejandra Moffat
Cinematographer: Natalia Medina
Editor: Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña, Paolo Caro Silva
Sound Designer: Claudio Vargas
Music Composer: Valo Aguilar
Costume Designer: Natalia Geisse
Production Designer: Natalie Geisse, Javiera Sandoval
Production Company: León & Cociña Films, Globo Rojo Films
World Sales: Bendita Film Sales
Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, both born in 1980 in Chile, have been collaborating since 2007. Both attended the Catholic University of Chile, with León furthering his studies at UDK (Berlin) and De Ateliers (Amsterdam). Through their experimental films, León & Cociña offer a fresh interpretation of religious symbolism and magical rituals deeply entrenched in Latin America’s traditional culture. Their film production incorporates various techniques, including photography, drawing, sculpture, dance, and performance. Their stop-motion films are characterized by a raw cinematic language, where papier-mâché figures and innocent-looking drawings starkly contrast with themes such as religion, sex, and death prevalent in their works.
Actress and psychologist Antonia Giesen decides to film a script revealed by a voice within the mind of one of her patients. Seeking collaboration with the filmmaking duo León & Cociña, they craft a crossroads of theatre, science fiction, animation and fabulated biopic, populated by parallel worlds and haunted by the shadow of a Chilean Nazi writer as a demonic figure.
