It is no surprise that mermaids feature in several of the early magical films of cinema pioneer Georges Méliès, obsessed as he was with fantasy and sorcery. In his 1904 ‘trick’ film The ...
On Chen Shui's wedding night, his bride's kidnapped by the Jiaoren, people from Chinese mythology who produce pearls from tears. He sets sail to a small island in the South China Sea to find out ...
making video works with cut-up movies rented from Video Ezy. "This very serious feminist tutor told me I could make a work about mermaids but I'd have to get a tail myself and swim - I couldn't ...
They have been documented to make a series of clicking sounds or may shriek when in distress. Since they are also aquatic throughout their life cycle and have a tail instead of hind legs, they are ...
In Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai’s first executive-produced film, she explores the divers ... lives of a group of these “real-life mermaids,” as the haenyeo are known, as ...