A 17-minute fever dream where identity gets the Super 8 treatment and comes out shimmering.
Morgana is a filmmaker who has found in experimental cinema a powerful voice capable of encapsulating the most abstract notions of her identity, unfolding in an amalgam of textures, colored lights, and wildly extravagant music. An intimate portrait of a filmmaker, but above all, a dear friend.
Cinematography
Hi8 footage that somehow makes grain feel like caresses.
Direction
De la Parra turns friendship into its own cinematic language.
Sound
"Wildly extravagant" is understatement—this score DEMANDS attention.
Director
Alesia de la Parra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a growing wave of Latin American queer docs rejecting traditional narrative for sensorial experience—think Lucrecia Martel meets home video.
Emily Morgana reportedly filmed additional material herself, meaning the subject became co-creator—explaining that unguarded quality no interviewer could extract.
MX
