Marina Olivares

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Criatura
video-essayConcept and Creative Direction: Laia Rafols & Marina Olivares
Text: Marina Olivares
Still Photography: Laia Rafols
Performer: Marina Olivares
Video: David Bustos
Sound Design: Daniel Moreno
Costume Design: Laura Soriano
Make Up & Hair: Claudia Casanovas

Filmed in Barcelona and Hospitalet, 2022.
Criatura — so named by the narrator to be able to talk about it — is born in the middle of the street and has an unusually anthropomorphic appearance. Immersed in an urban periphery landscape, Criatura gradually discovers a mesmerizing element: light. The attraction will become so strong that its body will develop a fatal mutation.


The idea was to investigate, by means of an audiovisual speculative fiction, what we understand by wild and what we understand by civilized, which also reminds us of the nature-culture dichotomy. That is why we located the action in a periphery: the boundary between urban space and rural space. This point in between is defined by the multiple realities it encompasses, and it is hardly classifiable, just like the character of Criatura.