Antigona despierta

Lupe Pérez García : 2014
Antigone Awake

What does it mean, nowadays, to have Antigone emerge from her millenary lethargy? The amorphous woman follows an older, chaotic law, both animal and tribal at once. Now that war is over, the birds call for her from the edge of depths. "Tonight you will bury your brother," they say. "Since we have already covered him in kisses." Her rebelliousness is a threat to the rationality of a nation, a proof of love that drags her to the land of the dead: her brother's land, her father's too. Only when there is a vibration between the spirit and the world, Antigone awakes. Lupe Pérez García's second feature premiered at Locarno Film Festival 2014.