Polly

Directed by Mateo Obrador

Length: 15:00
Producers: Maddy Freeman, Michelle Lee and Alexandro Pacheco
Editor: Jake Wichansky
Cinematographer: Eamon Colbert
Sound Mixer: Gonzalo Komel

Polly, a worn out spirit raised by a twisted puppeteer, gravitates between an individualism defined by her controlling upbringing and a multi faceted being developed by her surroundings. She is a hustler floating through New York City's pungent air and wallowing in her comfortable misery. The intrinsic doubt and constant back and forth between her Human self and her Universal self has drained her of all power of will and turned her into a conformist.

Her constant dilema rises from the duality of having one definition which she is not convinced of at all, and an infinite spectrum of loose identities she cannot pinpoint. A monopoly of thought versus a range of possibilities so wide that it engulfs more doubt than answers, stripping away both her individualism and the certainty to choose. Polly is a representation of the human condition, removed from societal constructs and focused purely on the core existential doubt we are all born with.

Mateo Obrador is an Argentina writer and director with a passion for cinematography and music. Growing up in Argentina, he was immersed in the rich jazz, blues, rock and roll, and hip hop culture of Buenos Aires at an early age. Between the thriving theatre and cinema scene in the cosmopolitan city and the peaceful contrast of Miramar, his family’s small town by the sea, Mateo found the balance between constant hectic stimuli and stagnant silence for thought and writing.

Undegraduate Film & TV

mgo264@nyu.edu