After admitting romantic feelings for her best friend, Tallula is faced with navigating social pressure and shame around her sobriety and queerness. In a world where queer stories are being diminished, Aquatic Museum shares a raw, relatable story of rejection, struggle & perseverance.
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Your support enables a predominantly women & nonbinary crew to push filmmaking boundaries, a feat when women only make up 36.5% of the industry (CSWTVF, 2022).
About Aquatic Museum
LGBTQ+ folk are more likely to contemplate and commit suicide then their heterosexual peers, with internalized homophobia and shame a key factor (NAMI). Aquatic Museum aims to tell a story of growth, resilience and learning to love yourself through our main character, Tallula, as she must grapple with leaving the status quo behind to fully embrace herself.
It's the night of Tallula's best friend's birthday party. Should be fun right? But Tallula is nervous because earlier in the week, Tallula revealed her feelings for her best friend, Lorelei. Still, Tallula decides to go, facing the personal and societal obstacles that come with living life rawly. She struggles to fight the habits that have hurt her in the past, as she figures out how to float in rocky waters.
Aquatic Museum explores the isolation of shame, societal pressures to conform, and the necessity to trust your inner voice. Using the metaphoric fluidity and constraint of an aquarium, Aquatic Museum straddles surrealism and drama, distorting time, sound and reality.
DIRECTOR'S NOTE
Loosely based on a personal story, Aquatic Museum is an expression of the shame, guilt and redemption of finding your way swimming against societal tides. As a director, this story touches upon themes that I am passionate about exploring: messy and searching female leads; mental health and self-medication; raw moments of missed and found connections; and using artistic metaphor to provide visual structure to a story. I resonate deeply with the main character Tallula's struggle to hold onto normalcy, masking her own emotions to placate those she cares about, even if she crosses her own boundaries, as well as her push to regain her sense of self-trust. Your support would allow us to realize this project in it's entirety, bringing to life both a story that needs to be heard in a time when many are struggling with the direction of society, in a visual style uniquely blending surrealism into a grounded story.
REBECCA GREUBEL - Director & Writer
Rebecca Greubel (she/they) is a director, writer and visualist focused on the poetry of everyday life. Her brain thinks in metaphors, colors and energies, and she often mixes them with reckless abandon. This translates the stories and experiences she shares into immersive visual encounters. Her work explores struggling women leads, mental illness, self-perception and societal gaze. Website: http://rebecca.earth
Aquatic Museum
- Short Film
- Director: Rebecca Greubel
- Writer: Rebecca Greubel
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After admitting romantic feelings for her best friend, Tallula is faced with navigating social pressure and shame around her sobriety and queerness. In a world where queer stories are being diminished, Aquatic Museum shares a raw, relatable story of rejection, struggle & perseverance.
DONATE HERE
Your support enables a predominantly women & nonbinary crew to push filmmaking boundaries, a feat when women only make up 36.5% of the industry (CSWTVF, 2022).
About Aquatic Museum
LGBTQ+ folk are more likely to contemplate and commit suicide then their heterosexual peers, with internalized homophobia and shame a key factor (NAMI). Aquatic Museum aims to tell a story of growth, resilience and learning to love yourself through our main character, Tallula, as she must grapple with leaving the status quo behind to fully embrace herself.
It's the night of Tallula's best friend's birthday party. Should be fun right? But Tallula is nervous because earlier in the week, Tallula revealed her feelings for her best friend, Lorelei. Still, Tallula decides to go, facing the personal and societal obstacles that come with living life rawly. She struggles to fight the habits that have hurt her in the past, as she figures out how to float in rocky waters.
Aquatic Museum explores the isolation of shame, societal pressures to conform, and the necessity to trust your inner voice. Using the metaphoric fluidity and constraint of an aquarium, Aquatic Museum straddles surrealism and drama, distorting time, sound and reality.
DIRECTOR'S NOTE
Loosely based on a personal story, Aquatic Museum is an expression of the shame, guilt and redemption of finding your way swimming against societal tides. As a director, this story touches upon themes that I am passionate about exploring: messy and searching female leads; mental health and self-medication; raw moments of missed and found connections; and using artistic metaphor to provide visual structure to a story. I resonate deeply with the main character Tallula's struggle to hold onto normalcy, masking her own emotions to placate those she cares about, even if she crosses her own boundaries, as well as her push to regain her sense of self-trust. Your support would allow us to realize this project in it's entirety, bringing to life both a story that needs to be heard in a time when many are struggling with the direction of society, in a visual style uniquely blending surrealism into a grounded story.
REBECCA GREUBEL - Director & Writer
Rebecca Greubel (she/they) is a director, writer and visualist focused on the poetry of everyday life. Her brain thinks in metaphors, colors and energies, and she often mixes them with reckless abandon. This translates the stories and experiences she shares into immersive visual encounters. Her work explores struggling women leads, mental illness, self-perception and societal gaze. Website: http://rebecca.earth