Xquisite Corpse
Dirección Frank Lahera O´Callaghan, Carlos Cruz Martínez, Agustina Araneda Coman, German Marin, Hernando Urrutia, Rrose Present, Sandrine Daumier
Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, España, Portugal, Francia · 2023 · 14 min 58 s · Experimental
Película presentada al OnShow International Film Festival 2026Sinopsis
A film that was born from the need and desire of 7 multidisciplinary directors to connect their feelings and explore communication through cinema and image in a general sense, where each of their realities were transparent backgrounds in their daily lives and their creations. , achieving new forms of interaction. By way of Dadaism, in these times of much calculation and little feeling, and taking the spirit of the exquisite corpse, this free and literary phenomenon is extrapolated, where each image, each plane and each cut, becomes a message and a word of It flows from random interpretation, from a distance and without a previous real and physical encounter, they were constructing a unique discourse, based on the progression of a fragmented narrative. A single online meeting to float the idea was enough, and then the images were born that were completed from each viewing of the last minutes of each footage that precedes them, until reaching this cinematographic dialogue, where the surprise, The contrast and the manifesto between everyone was developing. A collective film, from various points of view and creativity, but with a single intention: to be a single real and sincere communication.
Dirección
Frank Lahera O’Callaghan (Santiago de Cuba, 1988) is a Cuban visual artist, filmmaker, and cultural manager based in Portugal. His multidisciplinary practice encompasses experimental cinema, photography, video art, installation, painting, and performance, exploring memory, identity, displacement, territory, freedom, and the relationships between individuals, society, and power. He graduated in Film Directing from the Faculty of Audiovisual Media (FAMCA) and has developed a career encompassing more than 35 exhibitions and over 25 audiovisual works. His work has been presented on international platforms such as PhotoEspaña, BIENALSUR, and Getxophoto. In 2026, he was selected for Contextile, the Contemporary Textile Art Biennial in Guimarães, Portugal. He is the founder and director of ProbetaFilms, an independent platform dedicated to audiovisual experimentation, critical thinking, and the exploration of hybrid narratives between cinema and visual arts. His recognitions include the Go Cuba Fund (2023) and the Antonia Eiriz Grant (2022). His work approaches the image as a space for symbolic resistance, political reflection, and the exploration of contemporary human experience.
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OnShow International Film Festival — Inaugural Edition · 2026