Onboard a ship anchored in a tropical sea, an elegant crew of exquisitely attired female creatures emerge insect-like from portals, their faces obscured from view. Beneath their tortoiseshell shades, a new private language is revealed, a morse-code of clicks and vibrations.

Meaning both “mute” and “transformation,” the second film in Miu Miu’s Women’s Tales project is directed by the luminary Argentine director Lucrecia Martel (Zama). With sophisticated sound design and an enigmatic cohort of models aboard a ship, Muta is a mesmerizing short inspired by B-movies.