I want the night but when the aurora / Quiero la noche pero cuando la aurora (2020)

HD. Color. Sound. 3’24

The title is a verse from a poem by Fernando Pessoa. The verse and the poem evoke a persistent, contradictory longing—a desire for night while also yearning for dawn, a wanting with an inherent “but.”

Inspired by Maya Deren and her interactions with her own double, this short piece presents a mystical encounter between a woman (the artist herself), her double, and an enigmatic presen

ce of fire.n the aurora