Release date: 2021
Running time: 15 minutes
Shot in Full HD
Available for screenings in H.264
Image format: 16:9
Sound format: Stereo
Original language: Spanish
Subtitles: Spanish, English
CAST & CREW
Script and Performance: Cristal Diamond, Maracx Bastardx, Kevin Magne
Director: Kevin Magne
Producers: Kevin Magne, Nicolás Videla
Executive Producer: Nicolás Videla
Camera: Nicolás Videla, Fernando Martínez
Production Designer: Kevin Magne
Costume and Makeup: Maracx Bastardx, Cristal Diamond, Kevin Magne
Editing: Nicolás Videla, Kevin Magne
Direct Sound and Post Sound: Nicolás Videla, Kevin Magne
Image Postproduction: Kevin Magne
Poster Design: Constanza Hermosilla
Translation and Subtitles: Gabriel Larenas
Production Company: Cinespecie
FESTIVALS
AMOR Festival Internacional LGTB+ 2021 (Chile)
ALBORDE Festival Internacional de Cine Transfeminista 2021 (Colombia)
Kashis Mumbai International Queer Film Festival 2022 (India)
GAZE International Lgbtq+ Film Festival 2022 (Ireland)
Wicked Queer, Boston’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2023 (USA)
Seattle Queer Film Festival 2022 (USA)
Liberation Docfest Bangladesh 2022 (Bangladesh)
Way OUT West Film Fest 2023 (USA)
PRESS & REVIEWS
“
The short film develops an autobiographical review of the experience of being seropositive in Chile, during a period where the COVID-19 viral pandemic has strained social gathering, physical affection, the possibility of moving freely throughout the territory, and fundamentally considering the increase in the hiv/aids epidemic in the recent decades in our country.”
– Sergio Lopez, REVISTA CLOSET
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“Viral Oceans” articulates the idea of a biographical story crossed by the inclusion of the phrase H I V. The letters H I V; letters that are not just letters but rather an articulation of a social rhetoric that condemn through voices and that constitute, by themselves, their own story. The sea acts as a continent, containment, and the surface of the waves, at the same time, is understood as an incessant movement to survive the social and institutional order of the viral archive.”
– Juan Pablo Sutherland, DESACATO SIDOSO
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The narration creates a reflection from outside the moralizing discourses and concepts of how to think about the seropositive experience from an affective point of view, through a performance that is committed to the process of rescuing and vindicating human experiences.”
– ARDER EN LA FRONTERA