GODALUPE

Godalupe, a short film by current UMOCA Artist-in-Residence Sara Serratos, follows a transformative journey through the mystical landscapes of the Mayan lands, where the protagonist escapes her daily life and embraces change. As she explores these sacred places and reconnects with her origins, she gains a series of powers. Her journey culminates in the purifying waters of a cenote, where she undergoes her final transformation—emerging as a goddess.

Godalupe will be screened on a loop in the UMOCA Auditorium on Saturday, February 15, 2024. Drop in anytime between 11 am–6 pm.

Written and Directed by: Sara Serratos
Performed by: Carmen Serratos
Camera: Andrea Di Castro and Sara Serratos
Post Production: Andrea Di Castro
Filmed in México 2023

Sara Serratos is a Mexican interdisciplinary artist and art educator with ancestral ties to Utah, based in Salt Lake City. Her practice explores inhabitable spaces, landscapes, and the socio-environmental impact of architecture—particularly housing—alongside language, social constructs, cultural shock, and migration. Rooted in a sociological and decolonial perspective, she engages with film, photography, video, installation, sculpture, performance, and text.

Carmen Serratos is a Mexican interdisciplinary artist based in San Diego, whose work explores gender roles, femininity, and domestic labor. By intervening everyday objects, she seeks to give them new meanings and question the boundary between the ordinary and the artistic. Her practice encompasses textile experimentation, drawing, text, and installation. She also collaborates on projects across fashion, art, and film.

Andrea Di Castro is an Italian new media experimental artist based in Mexico City. He has explored various new media fields, including photography, filmmaking, video, and multimedia art. In the 1970s, he collaborated with No-Grupo and other visual artists to investigate the aesthetic possibilities of cinema, experimenting with photography, photocopies, fax, and other media. Since the 1990s, his work has increasingly incorporated technological elements such as GPS, microprocessors, proximity sensors, and mechanical and electronic devices.