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LUNES (MONDAY)

PAOLA TAPIA-LIMON / AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

The inspiration for this animation came from contemporary magicians and surrealist filmmakers that create metaphors of their own experiences and their particular ways of seeing life. Lunes (Monday) is the story of any person that is required by the society he/she lives in to act in a specific way, feel a specific emotion, or say specific set of words. It is the story of someone who decides not to follow the arbitrary conventions of that society. Lunes speaks about internalizing and externalizing actions, emotions and words; in this case, through the clothes that we use. Lunes was created for an experimental film class at American University.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER: Paola Tapia-Limon recently graduated from the Film and Visual Media program at American University. After transferring from Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, Tapia-Limon realized that telling stories, whether others’ or her own, had become an obsession and that film was the best way to do it. She interned for National Geographic, and although she is fascinated by documentaries, she is drawn to fictional stories that show life through the eyes of other people. Tapia-Limon studied for one semester at FAMU (Prague, Czech Republic), where she learned to work with 16mm film and produced her first short film. She is currently working a second short film based on a real character as well as Martes (Tuesday), the second part of her animation Lunes that she would like to transform into a series.