Variations
2021, 16:44, color, sound, HD video
In this genre-fluid fantasy, Griselda reenacts the director’s eccentric dates with hired actors while giving a magazine interview, but as the performances grow repetitive and surreal, the normally guarded iconoclast begins to unravel, haunted by their deepest, darkest secret.
Variations is the first chapter of Cry with Me, an ongoing film series and installation. The series stars the director’s alter-ego, Griselda, an indignant iconoclast armed with inherited trauma and a vicious sense of humor.
Written, directed, and edited: Denisse Griselda Reyes
Produced by: Rowena Kosher
Director of Photography: Erin Ramírez
Creative Director: Ian Decker
Sound and Soundtrack: Louis Difusco
Camera Assistant: Patrick Nichols
First Assistant Camera: Hongwei Wu
Artist and Production Assistant: Sofia De Simone
CAST:
Ayun: Ayun Halliday
Santiago: Sergio Miguel
Maya: Samone Nigam
Griselda: Denisse Griselda Reyes
Julian Day: Andy Warhol and Holofernes
Helena Simon: Judith
Salvator Mundi: Ian Decker
God: Brandon Biney
Dalí: Sergio Miguel
Rembrandt: Denisse Griselda Reyes
Kyle: Erin Ramírez