A new paraphilia in “Videofilia”
By GalaTView Staff
Photos by: Courtesy.
Videofilia (and Other Viral Syndromes) by Juan Daniel F. Molero, begins as a teenage misfit spends her first days out of school slacking and experimenting with drugs and cyberspace. She meets Junior online. He’s an aspiring amateur porn dealer into conspiracy theories and is also convinced that the Mayan Apocalypse is happening. Once they meet in the ‘real world,’ a series of bizarre events unfold in this contemporary non-love story that portrays a post-modern Lima as a glitchy computer virus full of corruption, psychedelia and ancient ruins. Molero’s exhilarating debut fiction film is a playful mashup of internet cafes, slackers, not-so innocent schoolgirls, amateur porn, Google Glass, acid trips, and guinea pigs as extras in an exorcism. Definitely the fundamentalist activism is seen as part of dictatorships and the trash television like dominating powers to which it is necessary to fight blindly until the last consequences, according to the point of view of the filmmaker.
