Alegría is possessed by the devil but exorcism isn’t much help, and neither is her daddy who’d much rather hit the bar. This wild and black grotesque is at once a parody of polished animated movies and proof that the choice to forgo sophisticated cinematic illusions can still lead to a beguiling film.
"She’s so ugly!” – say Alegría’s parents of their possessed daughter. And actually everything in the film is ugly. To its benefit. Created with an imagination wilder than a whirling dervish, the film combines elements of traditional horror with a punk approach to moviemaking. The result is an unrestrained work that seems bent on dragging operatic grandeur and superficial beauty in the dirt. Here, a two-bit story of exorcism, in which the starring roles are played by puppets resembling the product of abortive art-class slapdashery, takes on darkly humorous, even cruel, in places unexpectedly sad, contours.
25 min / Color, DIGIBETA
Director Sergio Caballero
/ Screenplay Sergio Caballero
/ Dir. of Photography Claudia Mallart, Marc Gómez Del Moral
/ Music Evol
/ Editor Martí Roca
/ Producer Sergio Caballero
/ Production AM Films
/ Contact AM Films
Sergio Caballero (b. 1966) is artistic director of Sónar, Barcelona’s International Festival of Advanced Music and New Media Art. He is a composer of electronic music, a creator of conceptual art, and a cross-media dabbler in provocative Sónar advertising campaigns. His feature debut Finisterrae (2010) took honors at Rotterdam, the venue for the premiere of La distancia (2014), his second full-length film.
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