Description: "The Rhine" is an experimental silent film with narrative elements inspired by Luis Buñuel's short film "Un Chien Andalou" and Maya Deren's "At Land". It recounts the story of Lila, a girl struggling to escape from her identity and the struggles of becoming a woman. It utilizes surrealist allusions to the subconscious and brings to the forefront issues of gender identity. These are often wrapped around an antagonistic force, present in the noir elements introduced by the writer in collaboration. As such, it seeks to reinvent the binaries that concern Lila's struggle as well as other opposing forces: the modern versus the 'ancient,' the moral versus the immoral, the liberal versus the conservative, and more explicitly, 'man versus woman'. Ultimately, we have the reconciliation of genders and sexuality as a resolution to Lila's struggle and heroic journey towards self discovery.