Julio & Lupita
Reinhard Aurora
Julio & Lupita is a video work in which a middle-aged Latino man, Julio, dances with a life-size woman doll named Lupita. Lupita bends into the strangest and even most perverse positions, to a ghostly Latino rhythm playing in the background. The dance with the doll is based on the Latin American tradition where an abandoned husband makes a doll that resembles his wife and dances the last dance with it, after which the doll is burned.
Production Year
2004
Duration
00:04:51
Tyyppi
Asiasana
dance films, death, experimental films, ghosts, loneliness, performance (art forms), theatrical puppets
Original Title
Julio & Lupita
Finnish Title
Julio & Lupita
English Title
Julio & Lupita
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Aurora Reinhard (Author), Aurora Reinhard (Director), Aurora Reinhard (Editor), Mauri Kuitula (Editor), Teemu Korpipää (Sound Design)
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Aurora Reinhard is a visual artist from Helsinki, Finland. She works with video, photography and multidimensional, hyper-realistic objects fetishizing the everyday. She holds MFA degree from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki (2003) and she has also studied photography in the University of Gothenburg and in the International Center for Photography in New York. Her works are presented internationally, including exhibitions at the Shedhalle, Zürich; Fridericianum, Kassel; Ludwig Museum, Cologne and Platform Garanti, Istanbul. Her experimental documentary Boygirl (2002) won the International media art award from ZKM Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany.
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