Penínsulas

A return journey, a hidden memory emerges. Snow days is a search for answers within the home. A confrontation with family silence and how it shapes us as people.

After finding some videos she uploaded on YouTube when she was a child, Manuela attempts to follow the trail she has left on the Internet. Along the way, she ends up coming across things that she did not remember about herself and that make her understand certain aspect of her current identity.

The Softboy is a creepypasta film that narrates an encounter with the Softboy, a soft and gentle being. The non-spectral, non-monstrous, but terrifying figure of the Softboy serves as an archetype to unravel soft masculinity and its role in the sophistication of macho violence.

Inside the computer screen we discover different virtual scenarios set mainly in a metaverse (Second Life) and video games while we listen to two voiceovers telling us how they deal with discomfort in different ways, drawing parallels between virtual reality and meditation as ways to deal with real-life problems.