Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Thu., Feb. 13, 2025, 7:30 – 10 p.m.

De Los Santos Arias’ latest feature reimagines the life of the titular hippopotamus, brought from southern Africa to Colombia in the late 1970s by infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar. Pitched somewhere between the ethnographic and the fantastic, this speculative fiction is told from the perspective of Pepe himself, who narrates his transatlantic journey in a kind of existential bemusement, commenting on the absurdity of the situation and his eventual death with a sense of wizened omniscience.

Gazette Classification: Diversity and Inclusion, Film
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive and ArtsThursdays
Speaker(s): Filmmaker Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias
Cost: Free admission
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