Director: Santiago Echeverry

Film: ANATEMA

Bio: The word Anathema means “something or someone that one vehemently dislikes”, and acts as the guideline for a study on the extremes that a person can go through when modifying their bodies through tattoos and surgeries. At the end the short film is a portrait of Doug’s empowerment, a man that in spite of his radical transformations has found a new sense of freedom, liberated from taboos and societal constrictions. The short was created using the Xbox Kinect 3D sensor, Processing 3.0 to generate the individual still frames of the animation, and edited on After Effects and Premiere. Music by Mexican electronic musician ZOONOSIS.

Santiago Echeverry is a Colombian-American New Media Artist and Professor, with a background in Video Art, Web Design, and Performance Art. He started his artistic career in 1989, participating since then in some of the most important festivals in the world, and he is considered a pioneer in the field of Net Art and Queer Filmmaking in Latin America. In 1992, he graduated top of the inaugural class of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia’s Film and Television School. In 1995, he was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Grant to earn his Master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. He started his academic career in 1993, and is currently an Associate Professor and co-founder of the recently created Film, Animation and New Media Department at the University of Tampa. His research is focused on volumetric imaging, interactive web development, and creative coding. All his works and projects are available online at http://www.santi.tv