When Your Skin Calls You Home
When Your Skin Calls You Home
Directed by Mer Aldao & Melusina Gomez
Written by Melusina Gomez
A poetic adaptation of the selkie myth through memory, exile, and the wild call home.
Support Our Work
Together, our community originally raised over $12,000 to help bring the project to life. In the years since, we have continued investing deeply in the film’s completion — including editing, sound design, color correction, and the many unseen hours of artistic labor required to bring an independent project like this across the finish line.
Like the film itself, this work has been sustained by love, devotion, and the belief that some things are worth coming home to.
Funds raised will help support the artists and collaborators who helped shape the film, recoup production costs, and carry the project into its next chapter- including festival submissions, outreach, marketing, and future screenings.
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The Heart of the Narrative
Inspired by the Selkie myth and Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés' 'Seal Skin, Soul Skin,' this film portrays the struggle of a Selkie caught between two worlds. Forced into an unfulfilling human life, she must navigate love, responsibility, and the quest to return to herself.
Meet the Filmmakers
Mer Aldao
Multidisciplinary andean artist dedicated to water. By combining poetic language, scientific curiosity and somatic intelligence, she opens creative and sensitive spaces provoking to spirit. Deeply informed by +15 years of filmmaking, nomadic and land based living, conscious mothering, improvisational arts, aquatic work and plant medicine. She currently lives in Argentinien mountains with her son, where she has her distillation laboratory, editing studio and a warm pool called La Aguada. You can see some of her internationally awarded film work here.
Lau Trejo
Lau Trejo studied Visual Journalism at the Brooks Institute of Photography and Visual Arts at La Esmeralda in Mexico City. She approaches art as a primary responsibility — a way of coming closer to the nature of reality. Lately, her path has led her into the cultivation of plants and fungi, guided by ancestral traditions and deep ecology. Her practice moves across disciplines at once scientific, human, and spiritual: the quiet alchemy of art and earth medicine, transforming her, with humility, outside and within.
Meet the Cast
Talent
Melusina Gomez
Mia Pixley
Shannon Gray
Seraphin Shmee
Shoshana Green
Polina Mirzad
Claire Calderón
Nikbo
Production
Written by
Melusina Gomez
Directed by
Mer Al Dao & Melusina Gomez
Assistant Director & Producer
Polina Mirzad
Cinematography & Editing by
Mer Aldao + Lau Trejo
Animations and Puppetry by
Bay O'Connor
Original music by
Mia Pixley, Claire Calderón & Nikbo
Sound Mixing and Design
Aldo Dominguez
Production Assistant
Kelsey Maeve
Find more music by
Mia Pixley
Claire Calderon & Nikbo
Find ‘The Mother Told Me' featured in the trailer by Mia Pixley, Claire Calderón & Nikbo along with more of Mia Pixley’s incredible music here.
This film weaves together the threads of myth and personal narrative, inviting viewers to explore their own journeys of healing and self-discovery.
