La Migala is a short film that I shot in Madrid. Based on a short story by magical realism author Juan José Arreola, La Migala is the story of a man with arachnophobia who, nursing a broken heart, buys a poisonous bird spider and sets it free in his apartment.
What better way to eradicate the feelings of loss then by replacing them with ones of fear? One painful emotion cancels out the other. Every day suddenly becomes a matter of literal life and death.
