Imagining the Author: Hugo Covarrubias

Saturday, 1. 10. 2022 at 16.00 / Vetrinj mansion, big hall

1-hour conversation with this year’s animation workshop’s mentor interwoven with the presentation of his films.

Hugo Covarrubias is a Chilean stop motion filmmaker, audiovisual designer and producer. He is a digital animation lecturer at the Universidad Mayor in Providencia, a founder of the animation studio Zumbástico Studios as well as a theater and studio company Maleza. The film Bestia (2021) was a ground-breaking one in Covarrubias' career that won the major prizes of the 2021 season and received a nomination for Oscar Academy Awards 2022.

1.

The Night Face Up / La Noche Boca Arriba
Hugo Covarrubias (Zumbastico Studios)
2012, Chile, 9'45''

A man has a motorcycle accident. At the hospital, he has strange hallucinations from a past that doesn’t seem to be his own. Here starts a trip that will crumble the edges of his very reality. Based on Julio Cortázar’s short story.

2.

Beast / Bestia
Hugo Covarrubias 
2021, Chile, 15'45''

Based on true events, the film explores the life of a secret police agent during the military dictatorship in Chile. Her relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations reveal a grim fracture of her mind and of the country.