Llorona. (2010) by ROB FATAL

[3:23, digital video]

This piece uses reworked documentary footage video artist Rob Fatal shot with experimental opera singer Juliana Snapper for her 2009 experimental opera "You Who Will Emerge From the Flood" to investigate the artist's relationship to a post-modern, re-imagined version of the Mexican folktale of La Llorona: the wailing woman whose ghost wanders the rivers of Mexico crying out from the trauma she suffered in life after disobeying society's gender roles.

-Director, cinematographer and editor Rob Fatal.
-Written and produced by Rob Fatal and Juliana Snapper.
-Contains samples of the opera "You Who Will Survive the Flood..." composed by Juliana Snapper and Andrew Ifanti.
-Turntablist score composed and performed by Rob Fatal.
-Costumes and make up by Susan Matheson

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