Fish that became drums, shields, pouches, shoes, and dazzling garments

By Roxani Margariti and Dimitra Mylona. In a nightmarish scene from Saudi director Shahad Ameen’s remarkable short film Eye and Mermaid, a group of fishermen have entrapped a merwoman and are extracting black pearls from her scaly skin; the protagonist, the young daughter of one of those participating in the savaging, secretly looks on in…… Continue reading Fish that became drums, shields, pouches, shoes, and dazzling garments