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Via Crux
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Via Crux

Dec 9, 2024
0h 9m
★ 0.0

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Fantasy
Drama

Production Companies

Self Produced

Cast

Natalia Lorena Garrido

Natalia Lorena Garrido

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