All that she wants is a short film written and directed by the artist with a musical score that incorporates a covered version of the 1992 Ace of Base song, All that she wants, by musician Lafawndah.

‘All that she wants’ is the reinterpretation of an already familiar song. The short film portrays the journey of a person who finds themselves becoming alive again. This enigmatic tale describes a situation where one might be dead or perhaps even both alive and dead at the same time. The portrayal of the main character is a particular journey and an allegory of reclamation and the processing awakening.

Nameless, the main character played by writer and artist Masumi Rioja arises from underground and pushes against the portrayal of assigned gender roles and stereotypical tropes, crafting a new archetype both hero and heroine. The narrative sparsely speckled with subtitles forms moments filled with sorrow, and loneliness but ultimately speaks to the glamor of autonomy and a perseverance of the right to be one's true self under any consequence.

By re-framing the question, what is... All that she wants? There is an attempt to reconfigure the notions of what's asked and expected of us through the twisted rebirth tale. Encounters blur, underlying social concepts relating to interpersonal relationships and their meanings are tangled. Through visual language, the film aims to capture and rediscover representation of those who live nonconformist identities while paying homage to displaced individuals who, for many reasons, have marginalized personal histories.

Score: Lafawndah
Cast: Masumi Rioja, Roberto Sanchez, Bree Zucker, Manolo Lira, Oscar Trevino, Tomas Sanchez
DP: Maria Tejeda / EP: Juan Villarreal