Ca(r)milla

Kearra Amaya Gopee’s docu-fictional short Ca(r)milla considers the revisionist potential that lies within folkloric myth. For Gopee, myth is a storytelling mechanism teeming with possibility––it’s an oratory approach that invites us to reimagine our histories and rewrite our lineages in the face of coloniality. In Ca(r)milla, Gopee annotates the parable of the soucouyant, a blood-craving, vampiric figure typically rendered as an undesirable older woman in Trinidadian legends. https://thekitchen.org/on-screen/ca-r-milla/

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12 minutes

Year:

2023

Director:

Kearra Amaya Gopee

Cast:
Camilla Gopee

The Soucouyant/Carmilla

Ishara Agostini

Dr. Vincent

Kearra Amaya Gopee

Investigator

Crew:
Kearra Amaya Gopee

Cinematography

Kearra Amaya Gopee

Director

Kya Lou

Colorist

Akeema-Zane

Sound Designer

Maya K. Ramesar

Title Graphics