ETYMOLOGY OF A CREATURE - CREATURA

The second chapter in a series of short films that explore the relationship between director Saskia Scorselo and multidisciplinary artist Maëlis Bekkouche.
"Etymology of a Creature" is a sensory and transformative reverie exploring the depth of the animal and the elemental.
Creature is derived from the late Latin “creatura”, from creo, creare (“to create”). We are enveloped in the tentative creation of this human fish hybrid creature.

The dead fish washed up on the shore represent the environmental catastrophe that we are living through. Fish are also our very first ancestors from which we evolved into human beings. Etymology of a Creature addresses both our struggle to transform, to evolve as individual beings, and how we can submerge into this universal ecosystem. It questions our very roots, and showing us that our identity is very much in flux. As Maëlis cradles these fish in her arms, she breathes a new life into them. Her body sways, soaking up the fish spirits. She is possessed and reemerges a fish like entity. The skin does not quite fit and her movements are not yet fluid. Her evolution is not complete.

COMING OUT SOON