Like Water for Chocolate – Film

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In Mexico, hot chocolate is made of water, not milk. To prepare the drink, one brings the water to a boil and then adds the cocoa. When someone becomes extremely agitated, it is said that they are “Like Water for Chocolate”. This expression is also used to describe a state of sexual arousal. In the tradition of Latin American literature’s magic realism, “Like Water For chocolate” tells the story of a woman and her lover who, having been denied marriage, find inventive ways of sharing their love. She can impart her feelings and desire through her cooking and everyone around ends up inadvertently participating in their passion.
Director	Alfonso Arau
Cast	Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazo, Regina Torne, Ada Carrasco, Mario Ivan Martinez, Claudette Maille and Yareli Arizmendi.
Writer	Laura Esquivel
Subjects	Drama; Romance; Cult
Resources

Mom Played the Flute, Shelby Edwards

The story of my Mom, Cindy’s, career as a professional orchestral flute player and how it ended when she had kids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUiRsO3uF_s

Skating Dreams

Skating Dreams displays a split screen of myself on the left and my mother on the right. This video is meant to show the comparison of my mothers skills to my lack of interest in the sport and how she tried to incorporate this aspect of her childhood into my own.

Drawing Exercises

Shelby Edwards, Drawing Exercises, 2018

Drawing Exercises is a book containing line drawings of yoga poses from a beginners guide to yoga book. It is an alternative approach to a yoga practice in which I drew every pose instead of actually doing the poses myself.

Always the Damsel

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Life Cycle

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Plucked

Plucked is an examination into the simple action of removing ones facial hair and how the meaning of this is altered once the action is performed on a parent by their child.

Bedrooms and Bathrooms

Bedrooms and Bathrooms is a compilation of high resolutions scans from the original Bedrooms and Bathrooms. The colour patterns present document the colour system utilized for CMYK printing.

Karaoke Choir!!!- Kaya Ratnasabapathy, Rebecca Payne, Shelby Edwards

buskaraoke

We created a mobile choir that sings popular karaoke songs. We used public spaces and invited strangers to join in, who would then receive a “CHOIR” button and song book to sing along with the choir. We wanted to create an intervention that allowed strangers to interact with each other in a situation where they normally wouldn’t.

Grey Area

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