Viral Oceans (2020)

The Radar read

A quieter title still finding its audience, though the rating rests on a thin sample, so treat it as provisional.

Synopsis

Three Chilean performance artists who live with HIV, meet in complicity and affectivity on the maritime edge of the Pacific Ocean to carry out a ritualistic and poetic action where seropositive biographies, feelings and experiences intersect. The encounter and the entrance to the sea, as a return, allows that, being inside, a flame of fire emerges as a symbol of regeneration and transformation of things: light in mortuary memory. Fire, lives and ocean in its immensity.

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