During the years 2020 and 2021 she had the opportunity to work with the film director César Déneken (El Jinete Verde) composing the music for two shot movies at the Festival Nuevo Cine Andaluz Contest (Málaga, España). Both short movies, 'Vidas por escribir' and 'Recordar' were highly acclaimed by national and international festivals. Later, she collaborated with Déneken again to compose the original soundtrack for the short movie ' El Tabique de las Lamentaciones', created by Antonio Rodríguez.
From my Ceuta, when the sun begins to set and the sky turns gold and purple, a silhouette dominates the horizon: the serene and powerful profile of Yebel Musa (the Rif mountain range), which we locals call the Sleeping Woman. But she is not dead—she is only sleeping.
Cradling the neighborhood of Benzú, legend has it that she has been asleep for centuries, since the time when gods and heroes wove stories from mountains and seas. Some say she was a lover betrayed by Hercules, turned to stone as punishment or redemption. Others claim she is Atlas himself, the fallen titan, turned to stone after centuries of holding up the heavens.
The ancients saw in her sleeping form one of the pillars that held up the world, the same pillars Hercules separated to open a path between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. On the clearest days, it seems as if she breathes, as though beneath the veil of mist that shrouds the Strait, she still holds the pulse of ancient myths.
Dedicated to my hometown, Ceuta—a city with one of the most beautiful horizons.
