Pedro Lavín
Directing
Biography
Pedro Lavin is filmmaker, writer and visual artist from Mexico City. His work weaves together oneiric fantasy and visceral eroticism with his own personal histories to create story. This aesthetic pursuit is rooted in themes of mythology, ritual and folklore; the metamorphotic power of nature; and the primal link between the divine and the profane. With an extensive background in creative direction for film, animation and VFX; and an audacious, pioneering embrace of novel tech and AI; Lavin’s multidisciplinary practice unfolds across a variety of mediums including film, animation, concept and generative art. Lavin’s filmic work has been selected by and awarded at numerous film festivals internationally including Sundance, Outfest LA, Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival, Annecy, Berlin Porn Film Festival and Choreoscope Barcelona among others. His artistic output has been exhibited at galleries worldwide including REDCAT in Los Angeles, JO-HS in Mexico City, Chinatown Soup in New York City and distant.gallery virtually.
Known For
In this visual poem set in contemporary Mexico, two lovers share an afternoon of passion as an ancient deity from their dreams performs an orgiastic dance that mirrors their ecstasy.
The Little Death
In a series of dreamlike digital vignettes, two wild fairies engage in an increasingly intense erotic ritual. Through lyrical poetry and oneiric imagery, the film mythologizes the homosexual practice of “cruising”: clandestine sexual encounters in public spaces. It analogizes this queer custom to ancestral Pan-European accounts of fairie ceremonies and equates the faerie ring–a mythical portal to the underworld–to the real-world liminal spaces where cruising historically occurred. These sensual, magical encounters take place in between worlds. Spaces not yet completely retaken by nature but no longer the domain of man either; alluding both to ancient beliefs that the faerie realm was located somewhere between humanity and the wild; and to the history of queer sexuality: often relegated to the fringes of society.