A 15-minute fever dream where clowns and priests collide in 1976 El Salvador.
An experimental short film centering on a circus performance in San Salvador.
Direction
Polío's raw, unpolished vision of Salvadoran life.
Production
Micro-budget authenticity that big films fake.
Director
Baltazar Polío
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during El Salvador's pre-civil war tension, the circus becomes a metaphor for military spectacle and public distraction.
Baltazar Polío was part of a small wave of Central American experimental filmmakers rarely screened outside academic archives.
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