Date and Time for this Past Event
- Tuesday, Oct 8, 2024 7:30pm
Details
PEPE
Special Features: Special Presentation | Q&A with filmmaker Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias.
Hippopotami roam across sub-Saharan Africa and, thanks to notorious drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, a small yet growing area of Colombia. Dominican filmmaker Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias uses this oddity to examine the effects of colonialism and displacement through an idiosyncratic doc/narrative hybrid. Employing a hypnotic baritone narration attributed to Pepe himself — a voiceover that switches between Afrikaans, the Namibian dialect Mbukushu and Spanish — Arias lets the creature, a rogue male shot dead in 2009 under the auspices of the Colombian government, tell his own story, one filled with deep philosophical questions about language, life and death.