Samantha
"Eat My Shit" - "Pieles"
Genesis
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After creating a figure for Alaska based on one of María Escoté’s designs, I was contacted by film director Eduardo Casanova. He was interested in an Art Toy inspired by Samantha, the character from his short film Eat My Shit and later from his feature film Pieles.
I already knew both works, and I had connected with their tone and visual universe, so the idea of translating that character into sculpture made immediate sense.
A few months later, for the presentation of Pieles at the Málaga Film Festival, his mother reached out to commission the piece as a surprise gift for him.
Concept
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Samantha is a character with a strong visual identity: her face is literally a butt.
But instead of leaning on the shocking factor, I wanted to approach her with a sense of normality, as if her daily attitude had nothing to do with the peculiarity of her face.
My goal was to capture that mix of boredom and detachment that surrounds the character, without turning her into a caricature.
Clip from Eat My Shit short movie.
© Eduardo Casanova
Even though this piece was made before I established my current facial graphic signature, I was already using an exaggerated eye spacing as something recognisably mine.
Samantha’s design allowed me to play with her strange, striking face combined with a grounded, almost casual body language.
Process
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Despite working with a character from another creator’s universe, I still worked within my craftsmanship and style from that time. The posture, the attitude, and something in the silhouette and the volumes are a reminiscence of the pieces I had created earlier for María Escoté.
Outcome
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The finished piece was delivered to his mother and gifted during the film’s presentation at the Málaga Film Festival.
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For me, it was meaningful to contribute a small piece to the visual world surrounding the film, and to reinterpret a character that already had such a unique place in contemporary Spanish cinema.
