Festival Trailer for ‘The Hyperboreans’ Trippy Handcrafted Chilean Film

Festival Trailer for ‘The Hyperboreans’ Trippy Handcrafted Chilean Film

by Alex Billington
May 13, 2024
Source: YouTube

“I had no choice but to take refuge in the spiritual world.” There’s an early promo trailer available for a peculiar, mind-bending, strangely fun new film titled The Hyperboreans, from the one-of-a-kind Chilean filmmakers Joaquín Cociña & Cristóbal León. It’s premiering at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival this week in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. Here’s their full intro: “Following their first feature-length animated film The Wolf House (2018), the Chilean duo are back, mixing puppets, stop-motion and live-action, theatre, science fiction, and real and fabricated biopic. In the liminal space of a big studio, our only guide is a woman – by turns storyteller, actress and illusionist – who interacts with Méliès-style cardboard sets and effigies, following in the footsteps of a very real man: the Chilean neo-Nazi dandy Miguel Serrano (1917-2009), a writer and the originator of delirious esoteric theories. Should he be viewed as a fascinating anomaly or symbolic of a deeper evil?” This looks crazy! A mix of animation, live-action, shifting sets, masks, and more. If you can’t catch this one at Cannes this month, keep eye out for it at other film festivals throughout 2024.

Here’s the festival promo trailer (+ poster) for Cociña & León’s The Hyperboreans, direct from YouTube:

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 The Hyperboreans, also known as Los Hiperbóreos in Spanish, is co-directed by the Spanish filmmakers Joaquín Cociña & Cristóbal León, making their second feature film after directing The Wolf House previously, as well as many other short films. The screenplay is written by Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña, Alejandra Moffat. Produced by León & Cociña Films & Catalina Vergara. The film will be premiering at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival this month in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. No other release dates are set yet – stay tuned for more news. Anyone intrigued? Want to see more?

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