What can result from the meeting of the Spanish painter Enrique Marty with the legendary artist from Baguio, Kidlat Tahimik? "Wolves at the Door. Cosmic Encounters" is a proposal by the artist Marty, a project partially born during his visit to the Philippines and meeting with Kidlat Tahimik. It is made specifically for the Instituto Cervantes de Manila, and based on a work in progress that he has been undertaking since 2013, in the form of short video-essays entitled All your world is pointless, in which Marty condenses his philosophical views on art, the world and humanity; and which serve, in most cases, as a starting point for a larger work.
Wolves at the Door is the title of Episode VII of All your world is pointless and represents the artist's first foray into volume animation, a completely artisanal technique that emerged in Eastern Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. The work revolves around the character of the German teenager Kaspar Hauser, an enigmatic figure who appeared in a square in Nuremberg on May 26, 1828. Apparently, he could not speak, nor could he stand up, walk or eat anything other than bread and water. His mental state sparked many hypotheses about his origins, and his end was equally mysterious.
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