Sirens Call

A queer performance through shifting landscapes: a nomadic siren seeking belonging in a fractured world where myth and identity entwine.
We follow Una, a mer-identified nomad, as she drifts across America, an uncanny traveler navigating a world that’s both dazzling and unwelcoming. The film refuses tidy categorization. It conjures an uncanny balm where road-movie momentum meets ritual, where intimate self-expression and subtle protest harmonize in neon diner booths, shimmering hotel corridors, and wind-swept stretches of highway. Una’s body is a political terrain: at once mythical and earthly, resistant to erasure. Alongside her, other merfolk appear, not allegories but self-possessed beings forging kinship amid structural hostility. With fluid pacing and poetics, Gossing & Sieckmann invite us into a space where mythology isn’t escapism but a choreography of resistance, belonging, and transformation.

Directors’ Statement:

We followed Una as a real and symbolic siren. This film is about being on the margins of normative worlds—and turning that margin into a space of self-creation.