Via Crux

Dec 10, 2024

0h 9m

★ 0.0

Your body is a chalice, filled with wine. Your skin is silken and tawny like a field of wheat touched by the breeze.

Overview

An experimental, audiovisual exploration of female corporeity and the effects inflicted upon it by a mystical experience. The conjugation of flesh and spirit born out of the contact with catholic symbolism. Religion and eroticism, as well as temptation and violence, as seen through an earthly spirituality. A short film inspired by real-life testimonies of women in the medieval times regarding their relationship to Jesus of Nazareth and how this translates to the female body.

Genres

Fantasy

Production Companies

Self Produced

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Cast

Natalia Lorena Garrido

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0.0

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7.8

K-12

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0.0

Humuq: Do Not Sleep at Dusk

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0.0

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10.0

Ningyo

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In a dystopian city, where women are merely the possession of men, the 17-year-old Valentina escapes from Zéro’s grasp. Vulnerable and alone, she gets rescued by Alex, the leader of a group of young, strong women who fight together against the injustice in the world.

0.0

Stolen Bible

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5.8

Medusa

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By day, Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, and by night they form a vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated from the rightful path. After an attack goes wrong, leaving Mari scarred and unemployed, her views of community, religion, and her peers begin to shift.

4.7

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After millions of people vanish and the world falls into chaos, a charismatic leader rises to lead the UN. However, his intentions are more sinister than they appear.

0.0

Via Crux

Dec 9, 2024

Audiovisual exploration of female corporality and what happens to it during a mystical experience. This is the combination of the carnal and the spiritual, with the contact of catholic symbology. Religiosity and the erotic, and also temptation and violence, all of these elements come together to illustrate an earthly spirituality. The following short film is inspired by true accounts of religious women, their perspective and their relationship with Jesus of Nazareth and the configuration of him on the female body.

0.0

Light of the World

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It's 30 AD and everyone is expectantly awaiting the coming Messiah. While Jesus isn't exactly what they imagined, there is something special about this man. Soon, John, James, Andrew, Peter, and others begin to follow Jesus on an unexpected adventure. This beautifully animated story of Jesus is told through the eyes of his beloved young friend, the Apostle John.

7.3

At Land

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A woman washes up on a beach and embarks on a surreal journey, encountering others and fragmented versions of herself in a quest for identity.

8.3

Jesus

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Three and a half years of Jesus' ministry, as told in the Gospel of Luke.

7.2

Wonder Woman

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5.2

Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman

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Gina, a modern business woman in her late forties, has a lover named Adrian, a journalist, who she sees once in a while just to have sex. They are both attracted to the historic figure of Pancho Villa: he admires his power while she admires his virility. As Gina helps Adrian to write a book about Villa, she discovers the similarity between Villa's relation to women to that of Adrian and hers, and that Villa's revolution never included her, nor the rest of the female half of the human species. Can the love of a woman and a man survive machismo?

4.5

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Biblical figure Jacob is forced to flee for his life when an enraged Esau vows to kill him.

6.4

Thumbelina

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Born of a flower and growing to only a couple of inches tall, poor Thumbelina is worried she'll never meet someone her own size, until she happens to catch the eye of Prince Cornelius of the Fairies. Just as soon as she finds love, however, it's torn away from her when she is kidnapped by Ms. Toad. Now Thumbelina has to escape Ms. Toad's grasp and search for Prince Cornelius. Luckily, there's a whole city of animals willing to help her.

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