ECLIPSE
ECLIPSIS
MEXICO | 2022 | DCP | COLOR | SPANISH | 16 | TANIA HERNNDEZ VELASCO
Director / Director: Tania Hernndez Velasco
Guión / Screenplay: Tania Hernndez Velasco
Productor / Producer: Tania Hernndez Velasco
Fotografía / Cinematography: Sandra Luz Lpez Barroso
Edición / Editing: Eduardo Palenque, Tania Hernndez Velasco
Sonido / Sound: Mariana Rodrguez Alcocer
Musica / Music: Aura Arreola
Compañía Productora / Production Company: Filmoteca UNAM, Sntesis UNAM
Sinopsis / Synopsis:
A recently discovered monarch butterfly subespecies (scientifically named "Danaus plexippus eclipsis") possesses strange toxins in its scales that cause powerful sensorial alterations to its predators. Intertwining vivid colors and textures of microscopic footage with the sway of the human body, this is a sci-fi speculation about what would happen to human beings if they came across the Eclipsis butterfly in the midst of our hurting world.
Biografía / Biography:
De-indiginezed filmmaker born in Mxico City. Through a poetic, ludic and sensory approach, her work explores questions of territory, nature, legacy and identity that traverse her Brown body and her intimate sphere. Titixe (2018), her first feature documentary in which she holds directing, editing, producing and cinematography credits, has been selected in more than forty international film festivals and collected several awards.
She currently works on her second film My Body Is an Expanding Star, in collaboration with Semillites Hernndez Velasco. This project has been supported by Mexicos FOCINE-IMCINE (2021) and Firelight Medias William Greaves Fund (United States, 2021).
She currently works on her second film My Body Is an Expanding Star, in collaboration with Semillites Hernndez Velasco. This project has been supported by Mexicos FOCINE-IMCINE (2021) and Firelight Medias William Greaves Fund (United States, 2021).
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Contacto / Contact:
Tania Hernndez Velasco
/https://taniahernandezvelas.co/ECLIPSIS
/https://taniahernandezvelas.co/ECLIPSIS