Exxxtrañas Amazonas. Martian Operetta

Exxxtranas Amazonas is a “Martian operetta”: a remake of sorts of the sixties Mexican science fiction film Blue Demon against the women invaders. This excessively bad (and thus wonderfully prodigious) film, is reinterpreted both on video and live by three Colombian transvestites who become the lead characters in the story. The audience watches the projected reconstructed film, which is in dialogue with cabaret numbers that the transvestites perform for them live. This experimental cinema-cabaret piece brings together Mapa Teatro’s aesthetic and political preoccupations, framed within specific questions on the meeting of two popular cultures, such as that of Colombia and Mexico, which are so highly representative in Latin America. 

 

This project won the Beca de Creación Interdisciplinaria district competition in 2009.

 

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