The Phantom Mirage

The Phantom Mirage: Scenes from a Movie Camera.

In 2024, on the occasion of attending Palm Springs Shortfest, I went on a trip to California taking with me my handy-cam hoping to capture some memories of a place that had become so mythical in my mind after years of longing to visit.

The place I had been imagining, the place I experienced and the place I photographed with my camera are all different places, which have all merged and become an impossible place, one that only exists within the realm of subjectivity.

Essentially a dogma film, “Mirage” is an attempt to create a silent narrative out of a personal archive, organised in chapters that try to contextualize my experience of the historical, cultural and social structure of a California that ultimately does not exist; containing my thoughts on ways of humans and animals occupying cities, consummerism, climate and housing crisis, death and immortality.

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