Filmed across ten cities in Mexico after an invitation from the Institut français du Mexique, the film reflects on the paradox of returning home through European institutional frameworks.

Negrillas Kuïlonï moves between dream, ritual, market, desert and ruin. The film unfolds as a meditation on memory, desire and the colonial fabrication of beauty.

Through markets in Iztapalapa, polluted sacred lakes, peyote lands, hacienda ruins and archaeological sites, people agree to be photographed. Women, men and children appear within the frame, while the narrator drifts across temporal and gendered positions, at times imagining himself as a woman in another life. What remains constant is a question of desire: what forms of education trained him to forget certain bodies in his dreams?

The voice-over is entrusted to Beninese artist Moufouli Bello, displacing the authority of a single cultural perspective and allowing the film to be traversed by multiple geographies of memory.

Rather than reconstructing a lost past, Negrillas Kuïlonï exposes a fracture in the present: a struggle to reclaim desire beyond racial and aesthetic hierarchies.