Carly Mattox
Carly Mattox is a writer and programmer based in New York, with an interest in film, folklore, and urban legend. Her MA graduation project at the National Film and Television School juxtaposed the film traditions of British folk horror with American Southern gothic.
Far from a neo-noir, the clash between Indigenous culture and oppressive colonial presence in Limbo suggests that the film is closer to a South Australian gothic.
Mendieta’s films are tethered to Cuba, sharing the same political undercurrents as the Cuban filmmakers of the decade prior, and are just as confrontational.