Mother and daughter say farewell in a night of transformation. In the last evening they spend together, Maribel witnesses her mother’s
physical body becoming the spirit of the Ocean and is herself changed forever. The
film expresses the cycle of transformation from life to death through narrative and movement, blending
the real with the magical, taking us to places that exist in the daughter’s imagination.
Life is dancing waters, and when life ends, we all return to the sea.
Please click here to see a clip from Dancing Waters.
Director's Notes
My
last short film, Dancing Waters, is a Venezuelan inspired story, developed and produced in Canada, about the Orishas, the
Yoruba Goddess, widely worshiped in Venezuela.
Not being able to shoot tropical exteriors forced me to set the
film in a magical realm. This limitation became a creative opportunity. Rather than trying to recreate the tropics, I went
with a more inner journey approach and homey feel to the production design, creating a surreal reality, suspended in time
and space.
Being an immigrant means having a multihued heart and having to create one's world. Only film reconciles
my Venezuelan identity with my Canadian reality. Through film, I express my colours and truth: Originally from Venezuela,
I am a story written in English with a Hispanic essence, developed and produced in Canada.
