Country: Sri Lanka, United States
Year: 2023
Language: No Dialogue
Subtitles: No Subtitle
Runtime: 6 mins.
Loosely based on the erotic poem Caurapañcāśikā by Bilhana, which was written in prison upon discovery of the poet’s clandestine affair with Princess Yaminipurnatilaka. Lotus-Eyed Girl ruminates on the curious and fractured intersections of death, desire, and class. Fading family photographs, pomegranate arils, pulsating floral mandalas, and horror atmospherics culminate into an ecstatic collision of death and longing—echoing devastations of the past. Through principles of psychogeography, the systems of power that shape identity and desire, in the way that colonialism has altered human perception, are examined in an undulating and capricious form.
DIRECTOR
Rajee Samarasinghe
Sri Lankan filmmaker. In 2020 Filmmaker magazine named him among the "25 New Faces of Independent Film", he has exhibited at MoMa and received a MacDowell Fellowship. He is currently working on his first feature film.
Director:
Rajee Samarasinghe
Cinematography:
Rajee Samarasinghe
Production:
Rajee Samarasinghe
Screenplay:
Rajee Samarasinghe
Editing:
Rajee Samarasinghe
Music:
Rajee Samarasinghe
Sound:
Rajee Samarasinghe
Art Direction:
Rajee Samarasinghe
Animation:
Rajee Samarasinghe
contacto: envythemonster@gmail.com
Screenings
León
22.7.2023
13:00 (Horario CST)
Auditorio Mateo Herrera 
San Miguel de Allende
24.7.2023
14:00 (Horario CST)
Teatro Santa Ana