Directed by Kevin Magne
Produced by Nicolás Videla
International premiere at AL BORDE 2021
National premiere at AMOR 2021
Three Chilean performance artists living with hiv gather in complicity and affection at the borders of the Pacific Ocean to perform a ritualistic and poetic action which will give birth to a flame of transformation and regeneration.
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
Assistant Director: Nicolás Videla
Producers: Kevin Magne, Nicolás Videla
Production Assistant: 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 & PREMIOS
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