Slowly We Climb…

From $6,254 Saturday morning, before my previous post, we climbed painful step by painful and anxious step all the way to 6,561. We’re at 26% of our goal. I was truly hoping to see the magic number 7 by Monday and when I turned the computer in the morning we were still at the same spot.

I’m hoping we can raise a few hundred more to have 7,000 and soon, can we?

It only takes one contribution of 450 or two of 250, three of 150, 10 of 50 or simply 20 of you get a download for 25. Or any combination of those. We jumped to over 6,500 because of one contribution of 200, 2 of 25, one of 40 and one of 42… that simple.

Jac is advancing with the Seditiosa script, amongst all the other things he’s doing, like the video test of the dialogues of the Crucified Three up on their crosses. He has Simonne’s part ready as well as Dani’s. Mila was with a cold and could not do it last week. She assured Jac she’ll be on the set on Monday to be stripped of her clothing and nailed to her cross. She has her lines already in her head.

Jac’s mind took a dive into the story of Seditiosa. He was inspired to write the lines in the video and what Yahel says at one point had him thinking. Why does she say all that? Where does it come from? All those lines, and all the pearls of wisdom that come our of Yahel’s mouth, mind and heart, must have a solid bedrock.

Yahel has a very defined view of the divine which is pretty much what brings about all the horrific tribulations the Crucified Three go through.

Yahel teaches about Shekhina, who she also refers to as El Shaddai: Mother Goddess.
El Shaddai has traditionally come to be translated as “God Almighty,” and literally implies “God of the mountain.” Yet, in Hebrew “shad” means “breast” and “ai” is a feminine ending; thus, El Shaddai may also be translated as “The Breasted One” and implies Goddess the Mother from which all that lives sucks and is nourished. In other words, Mother Earth, or as she is known in some parts, Pachamama. Yes, that’s where Pachamama Films comes from.

Yahel sees herself as the child in the image of the Mother nursing her Daughter and nursing herself in her and all beings; she sees Shekhina, the mother, as the true Malkut (Kingdom, or more truly Kin’dom), not the pieces of lands people fight for.

For Jac, the point is how to bring that concept into the story and make it compelling and not preachy.

When Yahel is facing her torturers, she’s already nailed to the cross and about to be raised, she screams at them

Shekhina will swallow this body, but the Truth you see in my eyes will never die!

When she’s up on her cross, her feet nailed, she will talk to both, Shekhina and all the people who are watching her suffering.

Devour my body, drink my blood, turn my bones to ashes… It’s finished!

Some in the crowd take her words literally. Yahel’s disciples are close to the crosses at this point, watching the Crucified Three slowly and painfully die, one of the disciples is entranced by the blood coming down Yahel’s body. A drop falls on her face, she doesn’t wipe it off, she rubs it with her fingers, looks at it, it is not enough, she touches Yahel’s bloody legs, gets more blood on her fingers and then she puts the bloody fingers in her mouth to suck the blood off looking at Yahel and saying:

“You are in me now, … you are me, and I’m you“

The task at hand is to tie all the elements in the story together, the healing, the preaching, the reactions to the message, and the ultimate ending at the cross.

She’s amazing. (Simonne) How did she find out about Monxa Mala?
Jimbob

We had a casting call for two films, 69, with a different title, and Monxa Mala. The casting took place at the Cinemateca, a good number of people showed up. We showed a film first, Olalla, for people to see the kind of film we would be making. Jac gave a talk about acting and there was a Q ad A after which people lined up to fill out applications, have pictures taken and things like that. Four of the women that appear in Monxa Mala, other than Mila and Dani, came from that casting call. They were put to ‘the test’ of torture, nudity and things like that. Simonne stood out, really. Not only because she’s so beautiful and talented, but because she was so daring by taking the role she took. She’s worthy of high praise and more intense roles in the future.

Nice pictures. Loincloth is perfect. Need to do something about the hair covering her chest in the final product. Wish this would have ben addressed a bit in this post, especially if it is going out to a few public sites. If I were seeing this and not already committed, I would be considering waiting to buy the thing after it is out to make sure she is “visible”. When do Patreon members get to see/hear the “dialogue” short films? What happen to the release of the Double Cross film? Was supposed to be out last week?
wanttoknowmore

Thank you. Yes, the pictures came out nicely. The loincloth will be smaller, more raggedy and bloodied, there will be an opening in the back side, in the middle, where a lash will break through. Details like the hair, make up, eye lashes, nail polish and so on, are going to be part of the work. We will be addressing those concerns. The clip with the dialogues will be ready sometime during this week. Mila did not do her part yet, she was with a bad cold and she’s coming out of it now. She said she was ‘afónica’, (aphonic), and could not speak clearly. She got better, she’ll do it now.

The release of Double Cross is coming soon, there were a few days lost because of computer problems. It will be released this month for sure.

Who’s going to die first. Yahel?
LadyKiller

I don’t know. I know that at one point Magdalena asks her torturers if her sister is death. She doesn’t want to die before her. When Yahel feels that the end is approaching, she tells her companions in pain,

It won’t be long now, this suffering will end.

Perhaps we won’t know, except that we will see Yahel yell out,

“It’s finished”

We’re dying to find out! Aren’t you?!

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