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The Night of the Minotaur

Juliana Zuluaga Montoya
Columbia
10’ 42"

The Night of the Minotaur uses archival material to build the story of Luz Emilia García, the precursor of porn cinema in Colombia.

History or fiction? Well, we wouldn’t know, would we, as we usually don’t know with myths. The Night of the Minotaur plays with what is real and what is not, building around the story of Luz Emilia García, presented here as a grandmother, the director’s own but also a more metaphorical one, of Colombian cinema, having pioneered pornographic film in the country. Juliana Zuluaga Montoya takes us through various archives, personal and cinematic, uncovering stories of just what you might expect from this Minotaurian figure: saucy details, mysterious encounters, mentions of the supernatural and, of course, vampiric and/or lesbian orgies. The director investigates with great humour the link between pornography and supposed monstrosity, where the label of “perverted” has often been used to describe that which is just “different”. Key word, to indulge — in the legend, in the game, in the vampiric orgy only at your peril. (Dora Leu)

Screening date and location

September 27th, 9:00 PM, Cinemateca Eforie

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Juliana Zuluaga Montoya

Juliana Zuluaga Montoya is an antispeciesist and feminist activist. Holds a Master in Documentary Film. Interested in the body, interspecies relations and post-porn, from a transfeminist, decolonial and posthumanist stance. Her work includes, as director, the short films Under Your Shadow, Presage, Sodoma the Moon Woman and The Night of the Minotaur and as producer the short film The Third World After the Sun, Birds Fly Together, Paradise and Worlds Burn in the Shadows. She is currently developing The Women of the Kingdom, her first feature film, winner of the Fondo para el Desarrollo Cinematográfico (FDC).

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • Directing and script: Juliana Zuluaga Montoya
  • Cast: Laura Muñoz, Paula Cardona, Juliana Zuluaga
  • Editing: Juliana Zuluaga Montoya
  • Produced by: Archivo Shub, Crisálida Cine
  • Producers: Daniel Cortés Ramírez, Tomás Campuzano

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