Hommage an Aria Covamonas (1979–2025)

As part of an animated film evening, "The Great History of Western Philosophy" by Aria Covamonas will be screened on July 1 at 7 pm in the KHM auditorium. The cutout animation film celebrated its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025 and was also screened at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film in the same year. Vanja Kaludjercic from the International Film Festival Rotterdam writes: "With its fantastical, painterly collage aesthetic, dadaist sensibilities, and hilarious dubbed Chinese dialogue accompanied by entirely invented subtitles, this Mexican animated debut feature offers a sharp and irreverent critique of political and popular culture."

Aria Covamonas (she/they) was born on planet Earth in the solar system and was a self-taught filmmaker, photomontage and animation artist. Aria Covamona's short films "Socrates' Adventure in the Underground", "Hideouser and Hideourser", "Unidentified Item No. 984", "Taxidermy for Beginners", "Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals" and "Tinnitus" have been shown internationally. "The Great History of Western Philosophy" is Aria Covamona's first and only feature-length film.

"The Great History of Western Philosophy" by Aria Covamonas
Mexico, 2025, 73 min.
A cosmic animator is hired by the Central Committee of the People's Republic to realize a philosophical film under the gaze of Chairman Mao who is displeased and sentences them to death right at the start. Be relieved that the sentence didn't stick being refuted by Monkey and Pigsy from Journey to the West.

The event will be moderated by Dr. Tania de León Yong and Prof. Isabel Herguera and will be held in English.