With a Promise to Love You Deeply 2024

In order to retrieve the spirit of their mother, Jupiter and Saturn journey to a world without time and seek the metaphysical aid of Grandmother Moon.

This is a contemporary folklore centering the journey of two sisters, Jupiter and Saturn, as they travel to the world without time and retrieve their Mother's spirit. With the metaphysical aid of a medicine woman named Grandmother moon, they interact with the four elements of the Yowa cross and speak to the manifestation of our ancestral world, Ku Mpemba.

Based off Bakongo Cosmology and the Asante proverb Tete Ka Asom which means traditions survive only by telling them

In the living room Jupiter and Saturn sit with their heads resting on their mothers lap.

Jupiter narrates how her mother is sending them on a mission to retrieve her spirit which was lost to the frontier. She points past their heads to a portal before them as it creeks open revealing purple light.

The sisters cross over into this “World Without Time” where they fall into the Yowa Cross on the ground, with the metaphysical aid of Grandmother moon, Saturn is put to rest as an incentive for Jupiter to travel around the cross, and as an offering to Ku Mpemba to allow their passage.

As they cross over back home and into their mothers arms their mother laughs, full of joy, and Saturn’s belly glows symbolizing the return of spirit.

Cast and Crew

Directed and Written by Taylor Wren
Shot and Edited by Marjorie Matamoros

Jupiter Samira Carr
Saturn Amira Diaw
Grandmother Moon Angel Bat Dawid
Momma Kimberly Chase

1st AC Liv deHainault

Camera Op. Vasyl Broda

Gaffer Chris Perez

Key Grip Allison Trinklen

Grip Abigahil Loredo

PD Tzoe Rivera

PD Carly Loevner

PD Paola Escudero

PD Nikki Kowalczuk

Wardrobe Nicki Andrés

Wardrobe Heaven Booth

Sound Mixer Nora Guerrero

Boom Operator Ally Ryan

Sound Design Cecelia Maravilla

1st AD Robin Manganaro

Script Supervisor Ariel Mitchell

Line Producer Nely Valle