Borscht

C#CKFIGHT

2013
Julian Yuri Rodriguez

A deconstructed adaptation of Dante's Inferno that takes place at a bath salt fueled fighting ring in Miami's underworld.

Julian Yuri Rodriguez created this film for Borscht 8.

PRESS

"[Julian Yuri Rodriguez] explores and questions what we find engaging and beautiful. The experience is seedy and brutal, with hellish yet celebratory undertones. Dizzying and visionary… this is a freakish carnival of curiosity with death and sex as the stakes" Cool Hunting

"[Julian Yuri Rodriguez’s] violent and darkly comic imagining of an underground Miami fight club was the best thing I'd seen at Sundance and Slamdance…" Vice

GIFS

PREMIERE

Fantasia Film Festival, 2013

SCREENINGS

Slamdance Film Festival, 2014
San Antonio Cinefestival, 2014 (Winner, Short Film Jury)
Belfast Film Festival, 2014
New York Horror Film Festival, 2014
Glasgow Short Film Festival, 2014
New Orleans Film Festival, 2013
Key West Film Festival, 2013
Fantasia Film Festival, 2013
Toulouse Extreme Cinema Festival, 2013 (Winner, Short Film Jury Award)
Atlanta Buried Alive Festival, 2013 (Winner, Short Film Jury Award)
Incubate Netherlands, 2013
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, 2013