El niño y el Basilisco
Manila, 1945: a boy looks at the sea from the boardwalk, turning his back on a destroyed city. From a photograph of his childhood, Luis Eduardo Aute glances back to discover what remains in him of those eyes of a child with which he looked at the sea. With the battle of Manila as the setting, a bloody contest that claimed the lives of more than a hundred thousand people, the author remembers the boy who was and how, from that tragic experience, the figure of the basilisk began to stalk him, a being mythological in the form of a winged serpent capable of killing with its eyes, representing the adult world, degradation and death.
Luis Eduardo Aute
Director
Also Directed by Luis Eduardo Aute
Accomplished singer/songwriter and artist turned filmmaker Luis Eduardo Aute combined more than 4,000 of his own drawings with state-of-the-art digital animation techniques for his unique animated movie, A Dog Called Pain. Aute explores the relationships between several eccentric artists and their models in seven black-and-white animated portraits. Aute focuses predominantly, though not exclusively, on great Spanish artists, as he examines the work of Francisco de Goya, Diego Velazquez, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Groucho Marx, and even Woody Allen make brief "cameo" appearances. The film was named for Frieda Kahlo's own pooch, and dogs figure prominently in the episodes. Through his silent (other than the musical score), somewhat static imagery, Aute focuses not on straightforward storytelling, but on capturing some inner truth about the artists, their relationships with their models, and their historical and cultural environments.
