Donosti – San Sebastian 25th Horror and Fantasy Film Festival updates
“24 weeks later” retrospective
This years retrospective will bring some of the most representative films screened during the history of the festival back.
Back on 19th October 1990, assisted by the city’s Municipal Culture Board, now Donostia Kultura, a film festival called Terroríficamente modernos (Horrifically modern) kicked off the Teatro Principal. At the time it was described as “an inroad into the world of recent horror”, compiling some of the most representative films from the two previous decades with the aim of reviewing the genre’s key aspects. This initiative was repeated the following year with From B to Z that became the Horror Film Festival in 1992 and finally took on its current name in the fourth edition.
24 weeks later, the time has come to look back and review some of the most significant movies that the Festival has shown over the years. This selection aims to offer an open look at a heterodox, free, subversive and innovative genre that over its intense history has managed to attract both loyal fans and many followers such as those casual spectators who has had a good time (or not) watching movies such as Audition (Takashi Miike, 2000), Cube (Vincenzo Natali, 1997), Man Bites Dog (Rémy Belvaux, 1992), Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi, 1987).
These are just some of the films that the festival is going to show in a retrospective cycle to discover or unearth real fantasy gems and, of course, great moments from the Festival.
The Festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a poster paying homage to its own history and the fantasy genre
(25th October – 1st November)
The artist behind the poster is none other than Jack Mircala (Madrid, 1968), an old friend of the Festival to which he is returning with a spectacular, densely-packed model used to pay a certain homage to both the fantasy genre and the festival.To bring these characters to life, the artist has used materials such as construction paper, scissors, glue and coloured pencils to make this tiny “theatre”.
Mircala had previously participated in the festival with two exhibitions (Jack Mircala, 2001; Mansión Mircala, 2006), producing staging for the poster starring Alaska in 2005, publishing the children’s book Verlian y el talismán extraviado in 2007 and giving an arts and crafts workshop in 2011.
The poster photography is by Asís G. Ayerbe and the final design by Ytantos.Pedro P. Jimenéz was responsible for the making of.
