From the press release for the opening night of the film festival, which turned out to be rather controversial!
FILM AND PARTY FOR THE OPENING OF
CICLO ROSA 2009
• On Thursday August 13 at 8:00 pm Theatron will be in the
Official Opening of Cycle Rosa 2009, an event that will begin with the
projection of the film Otto, or how to do it with the dead, and will end with a gay/LGBT themed party.
• The film, by the controversial German director Bruce LaBruce, who has received
major awards at festivals in Montreal, Toronto and Milan will
start a week of short films, feature films and documentaries on
LGBT issues, which will then travel from Bogota to Medellin, Cali,
Barranquilla, Pereira and Popayán.
On Thursday August 13 at 8:00 p.m. in Theatron, the renowned nightclub in the
gay Chapinero sector in Bogota, will open to welcome you to the ninth edition of
Cycle Rosa, and audiovisual displays about academic issues and LGBT rights.
The opening of this exhibition is in the lobby of the site, which is set as a sexshop --
fetish objects are displayed as a tribute to the themes of this year, including leather, masks and fantasies common to all human beings, without distinction among
gender or sexual orientation.
The inaugural film, Otto, or how to do it with the dead, is the latest film by Bruce LaBruce, who was already seen in
Colombia in the movie The Raspberry Reich. In the film opening this Ciclo Rosa 2009, a young
zombie named Otto appears on a remote highway. It has no idea where it comes from or where it is going. After hitchhiking to Berlin and to occupy an abandoned amusement park, in begins
to explore the city. Soon it discovers an underground film director, Medea Yarn, who
begins to make a documentary about him with the help of his girlfriend, Hella Bent, and her brother Adolf, who uses the camera. Meanwhile, Medea is trying to finish Up with Dead People, a
political-porno-zombie movie epic on which he has been working for years.
The Ciclo Roda is an initiative of alternative theaters Kayman, with support from the Mayor of
Bogotá through the Ministry of Culture, Recreation and Sport, Fundación Gilberto Alzate
Avendaño, the District Government Secretariat, the Instituto Pensar de la Pontificia Universidad
Javeriana, Ministry of Culture and the Embassy of Israel.
Cinemas
www.ciclorosa.com
CASA ENSAMBLE, 13 to 19 of August
Value of Ticket: COL$ 6,000
Features: 1:00 - 3:00 to 5:00 and 7:00 p.m.
Avenida Carrera 24 (Park Way) No. 41 - 69
Tel 368 92 68 - 360 - 369 04 35
CINEMATECA DISTRICT (PROJECTIONS IN FOUNDERS HALL), 13 to August 19
Value of Ticket: COL $ 3500
Functions: 12:30, 7:30 p.m.
Calle 22 No. 5-85, Auditorio Universidad Central
Tel 283 58 79
GILBERTO ALZATE FOUNDATION AVENDAÑO, 16 and August 17
Value of Ticket: COL$ 3500
Functions: 12:30, 3:00, 5:15, 7:15
Calle 10 with Carrera 3
Tel 282 94 91
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART BOGOTÁ, 13 to August 19
Value of Ticket: $ 4,000
Features: 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:15
Calle 24 No. 6-00
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