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ECLIPSIS
MÉXICO / FICTION / 16’/ 4K - SUPER 8MM / 2022
Produced by Mexico 's Autonomous National University' s Cinematheque (Filmoteca UNAM) and Síntesis UNAM, in coproduction with Estudios Churubusco.
Written, directed, produced and co-edited by Tania Hernández Velasco
Hugo Villa & Juan Ayala - Executive production
In collaboration with
Aura Arreola - Choreography, performance and music
Inés Gutiérrez (CirrinaLab) - Microscopic images
Sandra Luz López Barroso - Director of photography
Eduardo Palenque - Editing
Mariana Rodríguez Alcocer - Sound design and direct sound
Eduardo Gaytán & Felipe Meléndez - Sound mix
Kuru Lozano - Production manager
Fernanda Becerril & Gabriela Álvarez - Line producers
Semillitxs Hernández Velasco - Graphic design
Yolanda Velasco - Catering
A recently discovered monarch butterfly subspecies (Danaus plexippus eclipsis) possesses strange toxins in their scales that provoke powerful nervous alterations in their predators.
Eclipsis is a sci-fi short film that speculates –narratively and sensorially– around what happens to human beings if they enter in contact with this imaginary butterfly. Intertwining the vivid microscopic colors and textures in 4K, the sway of the human body registered in Super 8mm and archival footage, this film imagines a multispecies crossroads.
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