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Aking Senakulo dir. Jela Dela Peña

Screened in March as part of Monday Night Tales: Women & Queer Stories pt I

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The Madrigal Twins

The Family Madrigal

🎶 The twins of Bruno

Lydia and Oscar

Both stunning powers but neither ones the same. 🎶

🎶(Lydia)

Snow and water that flows so light

(Lydia)

she’s a flurry of pure delight🎶

🎶(Oscar! Oscar! Oscar! Oscar!)

and Oscar’s flames burn on

the fireworks they burst all night long! 🎶

We don't talk about Bruno

🎶Papa was the best and no one could do it better.

Always wrote us plays and then he made us the main actors.

Never was kind to ev-er bring us down

(down down down)🎶

🎶Struggled with his gift whenever everybody cursed him.

But he always used it when to help every person

Loved this family so much he'd al-ways put them first.

even though it hurt🎶

🎶They won't talk about Bruno no no no, we can talk about Bruno!🎶

This one doesn't work as well 🤷‍♀️

All of you

🎶Bruno's back, now we're back on track no more fire and ice at our sides🎶

🎶(Guess that's fine)🎶

🎶We may have lost our gift but we got out Pa back!

Now we can perform We've got out acting star back🎶

🎶Come on let's hit that stage and show them how.

The Bru-no twins wow🎶

🎶Let's go!🎶 

 Wow it's been a while since I uploaded...well anything art related on here whoops!

Tbh I've been much more active on my Wattpad account and have a backlog of art that needs uploading on here AND I've recently started a Ao3 book for all you lovelies on there so check those out if you like!

So a little bit of backstory on this piece. I work par-time at a school drawing with the kids and sometimes I bring my tablet in so they can learn a new skill, They love it and are always asking me to draw their favourite shows, anime and films!

Last week one of my regular kids saw me drawing an OC from a book I was reading and asked if I could make one for them and because Encanto is (unsurprisingly) the talk of the playground they asked for Encanto OCs.

Seeing as how I've wanted to draw for the Encanto door trend I though i'd kill two birds with one stone and make this a lil' passion project!

Originally they asked for a daughter of Julieta with a water based gift and a son of Pepa with a fire based gift but when I suggested that they be twins of Bruno instead they loved the idea and the rest is history!

Oscar was originally going to be Bruno’s name, once I heard that it felt like fate and the name Lydia?

well...lets just say I've been replaying Skyrim a lot 😅

I LOVE the Papa Bruno AU so much, actually I love papa Bruno in any form!

🔥❄️Here are a few head canons for the twins❄️🔥

- No matter how hard Camilo tries the twins will ALWAYS be able to tell if he's shapeshifted into one of them.

- They were the shortest out of Mirabel and Camilo when they were younger but have since grown and are now taller than both of them (they are also an inch taller than Bruno)

- Lydia runs a cholado and raspado stall and in the colder months Oscar runs a hot beverage stall they help out together and their powers help keep the product and the right temperature for longer

- They have a door inside their rooms that connects them together

- The interior of Lydia's room is like a giant hot spring oasis and looks like an underwater tunnel with wildlife swimming around (Before Antonio got his room he used to love to have sleepovers all the time, Oscar and Miracle were invited ofc)

- The interior of Oscars room is like a giant log cabin in the woods with a big bonfire outside (he and Lydia would stay up late and grill mazorca together)

- Their powers aren't inherently green, they can make it almost any colour, but they prefer it to be green like their papa

- When they were young Bruno would write plays for them to perform in (hint hint the song lyric) 

- Bruno used to call them his Ratonio and Ratita when they were babies 

- Oscar is almost always burning himself, his flames don't hurt him but his clothes always have scorch marks on them (also the cold never bothered Lydia anyway)

- Sometimes Lydia will take over and water the crops so that Pepa doesn't have to be sad to do so

- They have unique nicknames they call each other, Oz and Didi (de-de)

- They are almost always the main attraction for festivals, Oscar with his fireworks and Lydia with her ice skating and snowball fights 

- They are a month or so younger than Mirabel so Bruno had left by the time they got their gifts, at first they felt very bitter and resentful towards him but since then their anger has turned to sadness and now they just miss him and want him to come home

- Although they don't know the real reason behind their papa's disappearance you know damn well that they'll defend him and Mirabel to the death

- Because of Mirabel failed gift ceremony and grief at the loss of Bruno, there was no ceremony held for them so at midnight the twins snuck out and opened their doors together (at the first the family had thought they'd run away until they saw two new doors) 

- The twins do feel quite lonely and at times feel jealous towards their cousins when they see them with their parents but tend to keep it to themselves

- The first thing the twins are going to do if they see their papa is hug the hell out of him!

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Strawberry dir. Aida Ka’adan screened as part of Monday Night Tales: Palestinian Narratives pt. II

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Your father was born 100 years old and so was the Nakba dir. Razan Alsalah

Screened in Jan 2024 as part of Monday Night Tales: Palestinian Narratives I

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Neo Nahda dir. May Ziadé

Screened as part of Monday Night Tales : Women & Queer Stories pt I May 2024

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Ratita: Tell us about the creation of RESPIRA (2021)

AA: I started this about a year and a half ago, the research at least. I started researching artistic practices and creation processes. Started paying more attention to story and my capacity to listen, either to my own story or those of others. Something i really thought i had managed... but you never really stop learning to listen (haha)

Ratita: Did you begin with image or sound?

AA: To be honest the sound came first, the research had been pulling me towards language, memory, and memory as a mechanism or path to make decisions, this was nearly step in beginning the research for other projects— So i followed that memory path and that's how i came up with the sound composition.

Ratita: Do you make your own music?

AA: When i can i do. It's something i really enjoy but sort of have to be in the mood for. I taught myself a lot of what i know, but it's really fun to compose from scratch so i always try to have a part in the sound composition, it also keeps me learning. If not i collaborate with my partner or pull from archives.

Ratita: Why did you call it Respira?

AA: Well respira means breath in Spanish and it's something i'm always telling myself haha, but i was sort obsessing with breathing sounds while researching and only about half way through did it click in my head that this specific memory was triggered by listening to breathing...if that makes sense?

Ratita: How did you treat the image?

AA: I mixed medias. I used archival found footage of what looked very much like the beaches of Chile from my childhood, although it’s California in the 1960s... nonetheless the pacific ocean sort of to situate the viewer. I also used my own digital footage to represent present links i had made, like the resurfacing of this memory, techniques, and felt time. I also like to superimpose a lot with my video work, taking inspiration from films of the 1920s-- it was a technique used to show ghosts in films... There was this film historian that asked once, what does a ghost look like? And well to me, a memory can sometimes act as ghost that follows us around...Which is something pretty relevant in the global events happening today…

Ratita: How did you get in filmmaking and AV?

AA: I actually started out in literature but I was always into photography and then got into film history halfway into my degree and experimenting with more medias, which led me to do masters in documentary—mixing archival and documentation. I also learned a lot from other artist along the way. So sometimes i have these random facts and snippets of film history running around my head that make their way into my work…

Ratita: Last question, Do you consider yourself the fish in this scenario?

AA: hahaha, i've thought about that actually! But i feel i'd rather leave that blank and let the viewer make their own conclusions (if they have any!;P)

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A ratita production; stills from resident artist Allison Figueroa Rojas’s short RESPIRA (2021)