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“Fata Morgana” short film / Experimental film and video

This film tells a story of someone who’s enclosed in a familiar space for so long that he/she becomes afraid of anything that’s outside. The natural curiosity pushes this being towards looking out of the window trying to see everything around, but it’s impossible without overcoming the barrier of fear. I used a simple shape to cover a piece of the video to irritate the viewer and make them want to get rid of this barrier. The overlaying effect combines both worlds the imaginary, unfamiliar “mirage” world that may or may not exist and the tiny familiar apartment where the character is in a trap. The sound is meant to make casual noises that you get around the flat into the weird hypnotic melody that would create tension to match the moment of a difficult choice that is built on the edge of these worlds.

Since the beginning, the brief seemed very abstract to me, and I decided to stick with a poem in my language that is about a man who’s discussing the advantage of not leaving a house, a familiar place. This helped me to create a structure for my work, but later on, I didn’t need this text anymore as my plot drifted away and approached the idea that I used for my artist book too. The comparison of a familiar and unfamiliar space became my primary vector. I tied to look into a process of how we can be attached to the space and afraid to move to another one and haw a place can be scary yet appealing while being unknown.

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