The work
Three journeys, from inside
Egypt for JADEVA, Bali for VYVE, the Dolomites for the Inlakesh community. A few frames here; the full portfolio is one link away.
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The Seed and The Fruit · the other side of Starlight · Giza, 8–11 October 2026
Let’s give ADA a voice inside Starlight.
Thousands will dance under a starry sky beside the pyramids. I want to tell the other side of those nights: the music, the freedom, the silence after, the moments when strangers truly meet. With ADA at the heart of it, from the King’s Chamber to the last song.
The proposal
What I would create
How it works
An exchange: my flight and stay in Giza, plus access to The Seed and The Fruit and Starlight, in return for the full record for ADA and Starlight to use.
Beyond Giza, I would love to create ADA’s storytelling through motion graphics, to help with your website, and I am open to sound collaborations if they are needed. Always happy to shape the collaboration together.
Every image credited, every use agreed in writing, nothing published that the circle has not seen. You keep full usage of everything delivered; I keep authorship and a portfolio right.
What ADA gains
Every festival gets its aftermovie of lights and crowds. What almost nobody captures is what people actually came for, and that is where ADA lives.
ADA becomes the thread running through Starlight, the intention before the music and the stillness after it, seen by an electronic-music crowd it would never reach on its own.
Years at the intersection of nightlife and wellness, and I am a DJ and a sound healer. I can move from a techno set to the King’s Chamber without breaking either.
Images and films shaped to open ADA’s return, invite the next Starlight and keep the tribe close in between.
I am Mexican and create in Spanish and English, ready to carry ADA’s story to a Spanish-speaking audience.
What matters most to me is the sacredness of the moment. If the camera ever competes with the ceremony, the ceremony wins.
Dear ADA team,
I am from Mexico. I grew up running in the fields, with strong roots and a deep connection to the earth, to imagination and creativity, and to the sacredness of music and dance. That is where all my work comes from, and why I feel so close to a community like yours.
Today I document retreats and ceremonies, always from inside. I also hold them myself: sunrise rituals, sound journeys, installations of light. I sit in the circle, I help keep its frequency, and I record only what the space allows. I did this for JADEVA in Egypt, VYVE in Bali and the Inlakesh community in the Dolomites.
I would love to bring that to Giza, and give ADA a voice inside the festival. Thank you for reading, and for what you are building.
With love, Marcela · Marsseia
The protocol
People appear on camera only when they are comfortable and have said yes, and can change their mind at any time.
One quiet camera, no flash, no directing. I move as a participant, because I am one.
Ceremonies stay unrecorded unless the guide invites the camera, and everything is reviewed with you before it is shared.
Two films
Ma’at, a short film from my Egypt series for JADEVA, and Las respuestas, a collage film where nothing was filmed and everything was built. The second is the kind of motion storytelling I would love to create with ADA.
Short film
Motion & collage
Community & campaigns
For years I have created content and campaigns at the intersection of nightlife and wellness, the same meeting point ADA and Starlight share in Giza.
A New York–based conscious dance and wellness community. I managed its social media, grew it organically to 15k, and led the campaign for its festival, the Dance Beyond Campout, plus artist campaigns with Snow Raven, MOSE, Porangui and Desert Dwellers, among others.
Marketing campaigns for Ecstatic Dance NYC events, from the artist announcements to the night itself.
Social media content for Sonic Jungle, Junxion NYC, Gaia Nomaya, Resolute, and NYC nightlife events and brands.
Looking further
A year without a gathering is still a story. I would rather not bring a finished plan: I would love to sit down with the team and figure it out together, so ADA comes back stronger.
ADA speaks English today, and a whole Spanish-speaking world is ready to listen: Spanish versions of the films, a Latin community, and one day perhaps an ADA journey in Mexico.
The work
Egypt for JADEVA, Bali for VYVE, the Dolomites for the Inlakesh community. A few frames here; the full portfolio is one link away.
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Marcela Moctezuma · Experience designer & art director
Experience designer creating immersive worlds where sound, light, ritual and image meet.
Art director, DJ, music producer, sound healer and visual artist; industrial designer by training. Based in Mexico City and Todos Santos, after five years in New York, with journeys across Mexico, the United States, Brazil, Bali, Egypt, Italy and France.