Talk: To dance in the flame Dissident sexuality in Mexican postmillennial horror, by Dr. Valeria Villegas Lindvall
Excess, burdening motherhood, violence and desire have stood at the core of genre films in Mexican horror and sci-fi production post 2010. We will navigate the lustful landscapes of films like Amat Escalante’s The untamed (2016), apocalyptic scenarios like Emiliano Rocha’s We are the flesh (2016) and Alex Hernández Blood for the flesh (2018) and challenging motherhood tales like Michelle Garza’s Huesera (2022) to track the ways in which these portrayals reveal the desire to torch oppression by flirting with chaos.
Valeria Villegas Lindvall is a Senior lecturer in Film at the University of Gothenburg and specializes in Latin American horror film with a feminist and decolonial focus. She is Reviews Editor for MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture and member of the advisory board of MAI Imprint at Punctum Books. She is a former co-editor, writer and translator at Rolling Stone Mexico, and has written for Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism and Genre (2020), The body onscreen in the digital age (2021) and Folk horror: New Global Pathways (2023).
