Keratin

After a mating of elements, two bodies grieve over a lost third: a child separated from their womb.
The three bodies regain connection in a wombic journey, bound by their keratin. This spiritually networks the three into an eternal fusion of a collective body

  • Charlie Jimenez
    Director
  • Scarlett Wang
    Director
  • Catarina Dias Silva
    Director
  • Stella Rosenkvist
    Director
  • Isobel O Gorman
    Director
  • Charlie Jimenez
    Writer
  • Catarina Dias Silva
    Writer
  • Isobel O'Gorman
    Writer
  • Stella Rosenkvist
    Writer
  • Scarlett Wang
    Writer
  • Stella Rosenkvist
    Producer
  • Charlie Jimenez
    Key Cast
    "Child"
  • Isobel O'Gorman
    Key Cast
    "Parent"
  • Stella Rosenkvist
    Key Cast
    "Parent"
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Fantasy
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 45 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 30, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, 1080
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Central Saint Martins
  • Saigon Experimental Film Festival
    Ho Chi Minh City
    Viet Nam
    November 19, 2022
    Audience Award
Director Biography - Charlie Jimenez, Scarlett Wang, Catarina Dias Silva, Stella Rosenkvist, Isobel O Gorman

Charles Jimenez (They/Them) is a neurodivergent filmmaker, artist, and performer whose work revolves around the invisible worlds of memory, dreamscapes and spiritual experiences through pictorial, surrealist, and metaphysical contexts.

Charles is in their second year of study at Central Saint Martins (UAL), studying BA "Performance: Design & Practice" - Charles is currently working on a surrealist pixilation animation with the working title 'The Waiting Kitchen'.

Charles' has previously had work experience as an animator for Simon Oatley at BFI Film and Video, and has creatively directed and performed in several performance art pieces collaborating with Salvia and Dextra Mandrake; which have been featured at Riposte and Wraith, each respectively held at Electrowerkz, London.

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Director Statement

My work is a journey of the dimensional otherness of spaces, where thoughts, memories, dreams, spirits, and metaphysics are material planes, and all bodies are abstractions - outsides are in so the insides can go out. My work is often characterised by pictorial framing, which I use to explore pictorial realism, where subjects and artifice are aligned, I am interested in turning surrealist worlds into pictorial planes. My subjects are often genderless. I believe that otherness is important to invert landscapes, and connect people to internal, spiritual and oneiric perspectives.

Through my film work, visual art, and performances I look to explore and resonate with cosmic, spiritual existences and narratives. Subjects of symbology, post-humanism, mythology, alchemy, existence, growth, astrology, geometry, non-binary, and the human psyche can be found in my work.