Journey To The Underworld
Video, 10:00 min, 2021
New Contemporaries, Humber Street Gallery, 2022 / Still Point Magazine, Sleep Issue, 2022
Journey to The Underworld draws from self-reflection. It is a matrilineal collaboration between three generations of women. The artist’s mother, grandmother, and niece appear in the film. The video questions social constructions and how these influence and occasionally repress our notions of pleasure.
Collaborators:
Directed by: Paola Estrella
Art direction: Paola Estrella
Costume Design: Gabrielle Venguer
Art direction assistants: Karla Estrella y Gabrielle Venger
Lightning and photography: Paola Estrella
Dancer: Natalia Harrigan
Music for the dancer scene: Molly Meet
Witches: Karla Estrella, Laura Contreras, Gabrielle Venguer
Tarot: Wandering Oracle
Waiters: Eduardo Vinssac e Iker Orozco
Blue Beard: Emilio Cuaik
Illustrations: Emilio Cuaik
Lilith: Daniela Gerdes
Singer: Genia Gabilondo
Song composer: Genia Gabilondo
Translation: Iker Orozco
