Solo Damas rests upon a woman’s fragmented journey back to an island inhabited with decomposing dolls, haunting effigies symbolizing rebirth and transcendence. It talks directly about the phenomenology of the uncanny, the alien and the unknown and hints at taboos around the female body.The film’s title translates in English to ‘Ladies Only’ and is taken from the divide in gender within the train carriages on the Mexico City subway. Embarking from the train platform, the film is spliced with footage of the ancient Aztec canal waterways of Xochimilco alongside pilgrims on the Day of Guadeloupe.The revered virgins black girdle is a source of contention for the protagonist and is symbolic to her gradual understanding of past troubles. Deliberately allusive in what this trauma may have been the film is explicit in its feminine perspective of how we as woman understand the past and move collectively forward.
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