What if you fall in love with yourself the same way you fall in love with another?

The myth of a goddess who rebels against traditional romance and falls in love with herself.

Winter in Pluto is a story that begins in the head and ends in the heart. In August of 2018, we began writing love letters to each other on pink paper, documenting our personal journeys in love and longing. These letters became the bones of songs, meditations, images, and eventually the script for our film.

After reckoning with the mythologies of love that raised us and how they were shaping our relationships and expectations, we were inspired to write a new myth told from the perspective of politicized bodies (women, queers, people of color) that would inspire our viewer to find love and wholeness within themselves.

This is a deeply personal project that we chose to create in a feminine way; slowly, patiently, magically, with faith, trust and honesty. We made this film much like girls playing dress-up; using whatever we could find, borrowing clothes from our mothers’ closets, and letting no limitation hinder our imagination. Our community helped us build this world by sharing their love letters, their questions about desire and relationships, and their intimacy with a lover on camera.

Stylistically the film is a yin-yang of digital and analog visuals that reflect our exploration of binaries (masculine/feminine, head/heart, sky/earth, mother/child) and what we found beyond them. We were inspired by romantic archetypes, Greek mythology, 80s telenovelas, analog video art, experimental noise, philosophy, nature, women and the wisdom of our hearts.

Winter in Pluto is a new myth to inspire a new way of love.