Mojana is an associative re-imagining of a Colombian myth and traditional song. A mermaid-monster, who is desired and punished: the man-eating, seductive Mojana. Aggressions against this free and rare spirit are justified by obsessive love and desire. The film denounces the naturalized violence against this mythical female creature and re-appropriates her as a symbol of trans-feminine resilience. Kinematic bodies and animal-human hybrids. An absent body, which returns into representation. A history of dissident bodies who resist dying in a necropolitical system.

Selection of Festivals, Exhibitions & Awards

Xposed Queer Film Festival Berlin 2024

Berlinische Galerie – Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture 2023, Solo Exhibition

Eureka Festival Universitario de Cine 2023, Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau’s Retrospective

Berlin Art Week – Wilhelm Hallen 2023
Queer Film Festival Weimar 2022
Anthology Film Archives 2022
Uppsala Short Film Festival 2022
Proto-Club2:(be)longing – Shedhalle Zurich 2021
Ashkal Alwan 2021
MAGMA Cordillera Berlin 2021
Homografia 2021
Centro Colombo-Americano Medellin 2021
Xposed Queer Film Festival Berlin 2021, World premiere

Credits

Directed, Performed, and Edited by: SIMONE JAIKIRIUMA PAETAU & NADIA GRANADOS | Music & Sound-Design: AÉREA NEGROT | Sound-Mix: RUBEN VALDÉS | Outside Eye & Second Camera: JAO MOON | Grading & Compositing: MARTIN BACKHAUS | Special thanks and Outside Eye: MARIA ELVIRA DIEPPA

With the support of the Goethe-Institut Kolumbien & the Cinemateca de Bogotá – Idartes