No Film School

For director Alexandra Velasco (who was stuck in the haunted house) and DP Thaïs Castralli (who was sent back to Brazil in immigration purgatory), navigating this pandemic as immigrant women was almost psychological horror in itself. Here’s how they channeled that into a short film rooted in imagination and experimenting with the rules of filmmaking, called The Seventh Circle.

No Budge

A man is confronted by his violent past while living in a limbo of his own making. “The Seventh Circle,” directed by Alexandra Velasco, is a frenzied experimental horror film soaked in isolation and ambiguity. Whispering to himself in Spanish, a man called El Minotauro moves through a cavernous home. He scrubs his rug, swims in his pool, eats at his table, agonizing over something unknown. When a man in a cowboy hat arrives for a visit, El Minotauro reacts unpredictably. Composed as a mixed-media collage — digital, Super 8, found footage — Velasco’s film is an exercise in atmosphere that finds potency with kinetic editing and vivid setting. -KA. … [Read more]

Stage 5

Stage 5 | Interview with “First of the Free Girls” Dir. Alexandra Velasco | NFMLA [Watch here]

Adweek

Animator Isam Prado, designer Mike Gallegos, filmmaker Jessica Toscano, visual artist Alexandra Velasco and comedian Mattio Martinez created images, memes and videos that highlighted the best qualities of Mexican culture and people… [Read more]

i-D MX

Alexandra se ha desarrollado como artista visual en distintos formatos y lenguajes, desde video y collage hasta líneas de ropa, siempre abordando temas de sexualidad, feminismo y cultura pop… [Read more]

Milk

I’m interested in breaking the sexualization of the female figure through my art, especially right now… [Read more]

Purple TV

In the Dark of Paradise by Alexandra Velasco [Watch here]

Deuxieme Page

Artiste polymorphe et performeuse atypique, Alexandra Velasco jongle avec les images comme le peintre joue avec les couleurs… [Read more]