The vampires are coming! Silence (Silencio), a miniseries directed by Spanish filmmaker Eduardo Casanova (Skins) that mixes the vampire mythos with the AIDS epidemic, might be a part of the official choice at style competition Implausible Fest in Austin, which runs Sept. 18-25, following its worldwide premiere on the 78th version of the Locarno Movie Pageant.
In 2023, the screenwriter and director gained the very best movie award on the competition for La Piedad.
Silence, a mix of thriller and psychological drama with a putting visible model, is the primary sequence created by Casanova. It unfolds in two timelines: the Europe devastated by the Black Plague and Nineteen Eighties Spain amid the AIDS disaster.
“Silence tells the story of a household of vampire sisters struggling to outlive the shortage of ‘clear human blood,’ whereas additionally confronting social silence and stigma round sickness, sexuality, and id,” in accordance with a synopsis. “However the true poison that haunts them isn’t the illness, it’s the social silence that surrounds them. Centuries later, one in every of their descendants faces an analogous situation: the AIDS pandemic in Spain. There, she discovers that though time has handed, social condemnation stays simply as piercing. And the love between the ‘sick’ and the ‘wholesome,’ between vampires and people, nonetheless provokes the identical concern.”
The forged of the sequence consists of Leticia Dolera, María Leon, Ana Polvorosa, Omar Ayuso, Lucía Díez and Ana Polvorosa.
“I’ve all the time been struck by the way in which folks referred to the primary AIDS sufferers again when the
illness was nonetheless lethal: The Pink Plague,” Casanova explains in a director’s assertion. “Silence makes use of the parable of vampires as a metaphor to mirror on social stigma and condemnation by means of two pandemics, the Black Demise and AIDS. Although they’re separated by centuries and formed by very completely different social contexts, each are certain by a shared thread: concern and rejection.”
‘Silence’
He concludes: “Silence itself may be lethal. On the similar time, I’m mixing two genres that fascinate me, and that I really feel have by no means been explicitly merged on this means: vampire horror and queer cinema. Each take care of viruses transmitted by means of fluids like blood, a central factor each in vampirism and in HIV discourse.”
Try a clip from the three-episode sequence under.
