Dubois’ Fantasy

"Dubois´ Fantasy" is a short film inspired by a transgender dancer's life in the 50s and 60s´ Chile. Based on the memoirs of the mythical Candy Dubois, her pain, difficulties and dreams. Raised in a poor reformatory in Valparaíso, decides to follow her vocation and become a dance artist. It will be the story of the eternal escape from one's own being, the conflict of being born in a "foreign" body, while facing discrimination, loneliness, poverty, bohemianism and companionship.

  • Germán Bobe
    Director
    Latina, La intolerancia en el jardín de las mentiras y el pecado, La historia de la sońadisima vanidosa Petunia Dimitri, El sueño de la hora mas oscura, Repollito rebanado, Moizéfala la desdichada, Heaven, Fantasía Dubois
  • Germán Bobe
    Writer
    Latina, La intolerancia en el jardín de las mentiras y el pecado, La historia de la sońadisima vanidosa Petunia Dimitri, El sueño de la hora mas oscura, Repollito rebanado, Moizéfala la desdichada, Heaven, Fantasía Dubois
  • Germán Bobe
    Producer
    Latina, La intolerancia en el jardín de las mentiras y el pecado, La historia de la sońadisima vanidosa Petunia Dimitri, El sueño de la hora mas oscura, Repollito rebanado, Moizéfala la desdichada, Heaven, Fantasía Dubois
  • Fernanda Meza
    Producer
    Memorias del Futuro
  • Boris Bustos Izquierdo
    Key Cast
    "Candy Dubois"
  • Lux Pascal
    Key Cast
    "Claudio"
    El príncipe, Ella es Cristina, Poesía sin fin, Baby shower, Con Amor
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Fantasía Dubois
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    13 minutes 46 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 28, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    Chile
  • Country of Filming:
    Chile
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Germán Bobe

Multidisciplinary artist.
Santiago (Chile), 1963.

Bobe’s work is characterized by a mixture of styles, with images ranging from the classical to the typically kitsch – always with an eye for the social and critical dimension. His works frequently deal with questions of gender and sexuality.

He looks at the nature of human relations and the way in which these are mediatized by the dominant ideologies disseminated by the mass media and religion.

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Director Statement

I am concerned about the dilemma of "how to be in Chile." I explore the question in experimental films and videos evoking human, social and political conflicts. I mix classic images with baroque and kitsch, leading to a confusion of postmodern aesthetics and social consciousness.

I am concerned with the marginal, critically, and mentally problematic, those who experience what it is like to be considered a rarity.

I belong to a generation raised around MTV. I am the son of Pop, Kitsch, of “B" series.

I feel a fascinating, controversial commitment to the past - "the heritage of art, literature and culture."