Sundance Winner Francisca Alegria Bows Feature Debut ‘The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future’ at Fest
variety.comAnna Marie de la Fuente Five years after her lauded short “And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow’s Eye” won Sundance’s short film jury award in international fiction, Chile’s Francisca Alegria is bowing her feature debut on Jan.
23 at the Park City, Utah, fest.In “The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future,” Alegria continues to further expand the themes in her short. “I was exploring this in-between place, which exists beyond our physical senses.
It’s where the subtle entities are, where our sensations live, where death appears,” she says. “I wanted to convey those spaces through the stories and themes that have been with me since childhood.
I do feel that in the short film, these themes became more like symbols because I didn’t have time to develop and dig into the heart and bones of the matter.” In the short, 85-year-old Emeteria is visited by the ghost of her patron ON the same day that dozens of cows appear dead in a field. “The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future” begins in a similar vein but this time hundreds of fish appear dead by a poisoned river while a woman dressed in motorcycle gear emerges gasping from the river.
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