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De Los Santos Arias’ highly ambitious latest feature playfully reimagines the life of the titular hippopotamus, brought from southern Africa to Colombia in the late 1970s by infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar. Pitched somewhere between the ethnographic and the fantastic, this speculative fiction is told from the perspective of Pepe himself, who narrates his transatlantic journey in a kind of existential bemusement, commenting on the absurdity of the situation and his eventual death at the hands of local authorities with a sense of wizened omniscience.

This event is part of ArtsThursdays, a university-wide initiative supported by Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA).