#MacabroXVIII: First Program Preview

200 YEARS SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF POLIDORI'S "THE VAMPYRE"

Macabro has historically made the review of classics and anniversaries part of its programming, with the goal of showing audiences the films and works that have been key to shaping the genre. This year will be no exception, and one of our celebrations will focus on the 200th anniversary of the publication of the story “The Vampyre” by William Polidori, a tale that has remained in the shadow of the popularity of Bram Stoker's “Dracula,” but which gave popular culture the figure of the aristocratic bloodsucker—one who mixes in society with a seductive gaze, a hit with women, with money, with power.

“The Vampyre” is the second text to emerge from that famous night in 1816 at Villa Diodati, the same night Mary Shelley would go on to write “Frankenstein,” and the night vampire literature itself would also evolve.

In its honor, Macabro will present a curation by Casandra Vicario featuring films starring this bourgeois vampire, including great classics such as: The Fearless Vampire Killers (Roman Polanski, 1967), The Hunger (Tony Scott, 1983), and Interview with the Vampire, among the most popular.

LA SARNA CINE PUNK AT MACABRO

The collective La Sarna Cine Punk has already set off from the Southern Cone bound for Macabro with a combo of trashy, scatological, and irreverent cinema: The Trash Trilogy, which presents the drug-fueled, dangerous, and incoherent adventures of the Bruselas siblings, Ansio and Ana Ele—the one who lost her tits and got her brother drunk to win them back. Representing the bold collective, we'll be joined by special guest Capitán Alejo.

SARNA cine is an independent production company with sixteen years of experience in the audiovisual industry. They are currently finishing their fifth feature film (independent, self-financed). Under the motto of punk cinema they have built a strong team made up of young professionals from the audiovisual industry who, beyond working in the private sector, come together around the plan to make films powered only by the strength of friendship and the value of self-management, taking on massive undertakings where passion is the driving force.

“After three intense years of work and growth, we can proudly say that we have completed our most ambitious work yet, a different kind of product, full of innovative narrative and visual devices. TR3SH, the film in question, comes to close out the trilogy we began in 2010 with TRASH and continued in 2013 with TRASH DOS, both of which reaped their own harvest of awards and extensive festival runs.”

MACABRO DOCS PRESENTS HAIL SATAN?

To close out this first program preview, we announce the addition to our documentary section of one of the most controversial films on one of the most controversial subjects: Hail Satan?, the sensation of the last Sundance Film Festival. Directed by filmmaker Penny Lane, it presents the trials and obstacles faced by a group of followers of Satan as they set out to found their church, The Church of Satan, as well as the journey they undertook to create a sculpture of Baphomet. Hail Satan? explores how, ironically, a cult devoted to the darkest figure in Western civilization can call into question that very system of religious worship called the Church.

The eighteenth edition of Macabro will take place from August 21 to September 1, 2019, at the following venues: Teatro de la Ciudad "Esperanza Iris," Cineteca Nacional, Cinematógrafo del Chopo, Casa del Cine, Museo Archivo de la Fotografía, Museo Panteón de San Fernando, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Biblioteca de México, Centro Cultural "El Rule," Centro Cultural "Xavier Villaurrutia," Cine Villa Olímpica, Circuito de FARO's, Facultad de Cine, Sala Julián Carrillo de Radio UNAM, Universidad Latinoamericana plantel Del Valle, and Pulquería "Los Insurgentes."