This is a story of hope.

Описание: This is a short fashion film about my beloved hemp, one of the most sustainable crops on this planet, used for textiles in Romania for centuries, and sadly banned as a drug in the modern times. Hopefully this is coming back to life with the young generation.

A blend between old and new: romanian hemp weaving tradition, ancient folklore passed down through storytelling and music happening while community work was done by women gathering together while men were visiting to sing to them and chose brides. Every woman had her own relationship and personal style with her hemp plant, from growing it in the summer months, turning it into fibers, weaving and sewing in the wintertime.

This is just my contemporary interpretation of it, same setup, the village reinvented in the modern day, women doing their magic together, men playing music to them, just romininal in this case.
This very old romanian legend of the “Sanziana” summer solstice fairies has inspired me for many years, and i see their characteristics still manifesting in the women around me. We call them “iele” in romanian language, as in “them” but this comes only in the feminine plural form. There is no word for the singular form, because they allways appear together in the summer mornings of end of june, until mid july rain season, in the form of water vapors. They come from lakes, forests, ochards and gardens, and are seen by the villagers as these extremely beautiful young and pure feminine entities always dancing in nature, wearing white clothes.
I swear one june morning in the contryside, during the pandemic, i saw this fenomenon. It’s the warm sun taking the rainwater out of the ground. It really looks like mist is dancing if there is a soft wind. I can understand how people gave life to natural fenomenons, but maybe they were just a little more connected with the spirits and the unseen in the past. Maybe there really is something more out there, we just lost our abilty to see it.
These “iele” are sacred benevolent creatures, protectors of the land, can be admired from a distance, but can also become evil if the men dare to look at them with sexual desire.
This is a wonderful manifestation of the wild feminine, and it was used as a guideline for men in the communities to respect them, avoid contact, and just let the feminine magic happen in peace, unbothered.
It’s really just honouring one of the seven feminine archetypes, in the most beautiful way, before cristianity reduced them to just two. I am so grateful to be born in this land where the mythical did not dissapear.


[Just a reminder: hemp is the cannabis plant that containg less than 2% THC (the psychoactive compound that gets hippies high) and it can be used for so many more things like superfood, anti-infalmmatory, anti-cancer oils, paper, rope, pacakging, even sustainable construction from the byproducts that come after turning the stems into fibers: hempcrete. Look it up, it’s really amazing. It can literally save the world, it enriches damaged soil from industrial farming, it does’t need much water to grow, and i can go on forever with all the benefits. Of course the oil industry made it illegal, because they replaced it with plastic after ww2. But we as individuals and as a collective have the power in our everyday choices to change this planet for the better].


Many thanks to all the people involved that made this movie happen back in 2020.
May we all build peace on this planet. 🙏🏻