Luis Ospina is among the most revered Latin American underground filmmakers – one of the inventors of a subgenre that came to be called ‘tropical gothic’, and a co-writer of the manifesto ‘What Is Misery Porn?’ that in 1978 called worldwide attention to the fact that the cinema of developing-countries is too often praised for miserabilism while its formal innovation is overlooked. His own formal playfulness and his penchant for underappreciated genres have been so pertinent in Latin America that it is a wonder he is only now getting introduced to a wider, Western audience. As is often the case with cult directors, Ospina has taken some time to receive broad career recognition. This is now changing, as in the past two years he has been fêted in his native Colombia, at the International Film Festival in Cartagena de Indias (FICCI) and in Cali and Medellín, and has also been shown in Brazil, in California at UCLA, and most recently at Doclisboa in Portugal – the last his first comprehensive retrospective in Europe…