autofiction • moving image
Yellow Cage
Experimental short film
2020 - 7’ 53” | Digital | Color + B&W | Sound
Brazil
*Work available under request: pedroborbamendes@gmail.com
Excerpt from "Yellow Cage" (2020)
The first experimental film created in collaboration by Pedro Mendes and Amanda Gatti. Inspired by Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s emblematic feminist horror tale The Yellow Wallpaper, the project was conceived as both a creative experiment and a political gesture — drawing from the story’s haunting portrayal of gender and mental health to reflect on how these issues remain painfully relevant today.
The film unfolds in short, vignette-like scenes that echo the fragmented structure of early cinema and mirror the psychological unraveling of the protagonist. Blending performance, visual effects, and surreal imagery, the artists sought to give visual form to the internal world of the character, allowing it to spill into the language of the film.
Yellow Cage reflects their shared interest in how image-making can expose — or resist — structures of power. It is also a tribute to the women in their lives, honoring their resilience in the face of the oppression they endured from birth to death.

screenplay Amanda Gatti, Pedro Mendes
director Pedro Mendes
performer Amanda Gatti
cinematography Amanda Gatti, Pedro Mendes
production design Amanda Gatti, Pedro Mendes
costume Amanda Gatti
production Amanda Gatti
editing/color grading Pedro Mendes
original score Daniel Soares Oliveira
sound recording Bernardo Frota
sound design/mixing Convulsion Epics
graphic designer Louise Kanefuku





