Private Project

CHAMBERS OF THE SUN

Feeling close to her goal of creating gold through alchemical transmutation, Ida enlists her friend Margo to help in the final stages of the process. As Ida’s plan unfolds and the two women continue to work, the skepticism Margo initially felt wanes. Both she and Ida are confronted with the increasingly apparent costs of this transformative process and must grapple with the consequences of an existential obsession as physical and ethereal planes of experience shift and intersect.

  • Georga May Morgan-Fleming
    Director
  • Jose Luis Herrera
    Director
  • Georga May Morgan-Fleming
    Writer
  • Jose Luis Herrera
    Writer
  • Karen Alejandra Herrera
    Producer
  • Sandra Anne Fleming
    Producer
  • Glenn Patrick Morgan
    Producer
  • Myriam Ali-Ahmad
    Key Cast
    "Ida"
  • Georga May Morgan-Fleming
    Key Cast
    "Margo"
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    19 minutes 4 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 10, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    11,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • HollyShorts Monthly Screenings
    Sherman Oaks, California
    United States
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Georga May Morgan-Fleming, Jose Luis Herrera

Georga Morgan-Fleming and José Herrera are two filmmakers living and working in Southern California. Georga grew up in New England where she developed an early interest in oil painting. Jose grew up in Southern California in a Latino household playing the trumpet and studying ceramics. Georga and Jose each moved to Lewiston, Maine to pursue their undergraduate degrees at Bates College where they studied oil painting and sculpture, respectively.

After graduating and spending a few years in Maine, both Georga and Jose moved to Los Angeles in 2019 to begin work on their first short film together, 20 GALLONS. 20 GALLONS is a 16 minute self funded short, created over the course of a year, that served to establish some of the directors’ recurring themes and motifs. Following their first short, work began in late 2020 on a more ambitious project titled CHAMBERS OF THE SUN. CHAMBERS OF THE SUN took a year and half to write, film, and edit, and uses expansive storytelling and rich visual artistic sequences to engage with audiences and push the creative boundaries of film. Currently, the co-directors are planning to start work on a new short in late May of 2022 that documents the experience and myth of the Western United States wildfires.

Both Georga and Jose maintain full time jobs, Georga works at UCLA Health in the child psychology department and Jose works at Lionsgate Entertainment in their theatrical distribution department.

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Director Statement

We are all gripped by an intense, inescapable desire to explore or create as a way of finding meaning in existence, but we can’t always comprehend the outcomes of our efforts due to the limitations of human understanding. A failure to see these limitations when they arise in front of us can lead to grave consequences for the body and the soul. CHAMBERS OF THE SUN follows characters who are consumed by this existential obsession to understand something beyond their physical world through the process of creation, specifically through the impossible task of creating gold.

Our approach to the film was intentionally slow: we spent a year and a half on the project, which gave us space to question and react at every step, leaving room for the themes to expand and new associations to emerge. Through this iterative way of working, we let the film drive how it wanted to be shaped, ultimately resulting in a deeply internal and reflective film that looks into the self and the relationship between the self, the world, and the vastness that is beyond us. The film is not prescriptive, and it does not have a concrete message to relay that would offer clarity into the unknown. Instead, our goal was to reflect as honestly as possible what is inside us so that we may be closer to ourselves and widen the scope of our own experience of the world. Through this clear glass, other people will see themselves reflected too, and in a way that they have never before experienced; not because it is profoundly new, but because it is specific to our combined vantage points of experience, and therefore offers a new way of seeing to anyone else who is willing to look.