Five minutes to shatter how you've ever thought about your own reflection.
A reframing of the classic tale of Narcissus, the director draws on snippets of conversation with a trusted friend to muse on gender and identity. Just as shimmers are difficult to grasp as knowable entities, so does the concept of a gendered self feel unknowable except through reflection. Is it Narcissus that Echo truly longs for, or simply the Knowing he possesses when gazing upon himself?
Cinematography
Black-and-white shimmer that dissolves bodies into myth.
Direction
Aguirre weaponizes the personal as political, then makes it poetry.
Director
Serena Aguirre
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aguirre's casting of 'Nipple pasties as Modesty' isn't camp — it's a thesis statement on how we armor the self.
This reframing arrives amid a wave of trans feminine experimental cinema reclaiming mythological figures historically reduced to tragedy.
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