Join Spectra for our second event, a screening of Anhell69 (2022) by Theo Montoya.

Conceived as a fictional project with a cast of queer friends in Medellín, Colombia, Anhell69 tragically transformed as the main protagonist, like many other friends of the director, passed away. The film became a powerful response to this loss, a refusal to accept a world that denied them a future.

Anhell69 blends fiction and documentary, weaving haunting encounters with the city's ghosts alongside intimate footage of Montoya's friends.  This is a film that defies categorisation, existing as both an elegy and an act of defiance. It pushes boundaries, rejecting the limitations of traditional cinema and the violence it can perpetuate against marginalized communities.

Anhell69 embraces contradictions, exploring the spaces between life and death, fiction and reality, horror and love. It aspires to be a "trans film," boundless in scope and defying definitions.

Anhell69 | dir. Theo Montoya  | 2022 | Colombia | 72min

The film will be introduce by Tiago De Luca. Tiago de Luca is a Reader in Film Studies at the University of Warwick. His specialisms include Latin American cinema, slow cinema and ecocinema. He is the author of Planetary Cinema: Film, Media and the Earth (2022) and Realism of the Senses in World Cinema: The Experience of Physical Reality (2014), and the co-editor of Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema (2022) and Slow Cinema (2016). 

Content Warnings: Contains scenes of explicit sex and violence, references to suicide and drug-use. Contains flashing images.