La Ciega - A Short Film

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A blind mystic living in 17th-century Spain finds the boundary between fantasy and reality crumbling around her. Based on a true story. - Content warning: this film involves issues of sexual assault and abortion.The StoryLa Ciega is a thirteen-minute live-action film about a blind mystic named María Cotanilla who lived in Spain in the 17th century. An outcast in her small village, María finds in her mystical visions a world of her own—one where she can explore color, desire, divinity, and her own boundless creativity, safe from the repressive eye of her neighbors. Mar&iacut ...

Read More e;a, known in her village as “la ciega,” (the blind woman) sees what no one else can: silver-tongued suitors dripping with pearls, donkeys and maidens frolicking in forest clearings, the Virgin Mary’s gown billowing twenty-five feet off the ground. But María’s visions take a dark turn when, late one night, a mysterious intrud

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