ALMA MATTER RITUAL

Directed by Penelope Gil

Cinematography by Aaron Gil

Music by Vitamin String Quartet / The Smiths

On a beautiful, peaceful day, a woman keeps herself amused with photography, reading, walking, eating oranges from her tree and drinking wine on a hill. Content with the easiness of the day she lays down to take a nap.

In her dream she travels back to high school where she encounters an inspiring idol from her youth, Morrissey. She is disturbed as he is masked by students who hide behind his image. Running in circles around the school barefoot she catches her disapproving teacher who summons her over to announce she is receiving an F and not graduating.  Awakening from the shock, the woman is relieved that the dream was not real.