An Imaginary Film is an experiment. It is both a book and a full-length film, a work in which two means are discussing and inducing questions about the perception of reading and watching a movie. The form exposes the content. An Imaginary Film is an audiovisual and written essay that follows a consciousness, a train of thought, a gaze. It proposes a game to the spectator: to take a look into the inner world, to walk around the unexplored terrains of the self, to wonder about the nature of reality and art, about the experience being lived in the present tense. It is a mirror on which simultaneously are reflected the work, the creative process, and the spectators' experience, a vertiginous "mise en abyme" of the pure present. The film shows an internal reality, projects a mind full of emotions and shifting memories. Furthermore, it produces a temporary game. By melting future, past, and present it creates an exacerbated Now.
Un film imaginario es un experimento. Es tanto un libro como un largometraje, una obra en la que hay dos medios discutiendo y suscitando preguntas acerca de la experiencia de leer y ver una película. La forma expone su contenido. Un film imaginario es un ensayo escrito y audiovisual que sigue una conciencia, un tren de pensamiento, una mirada. Propone un juego al espectador: volcar la mirada hacia adentro, pasear por los terrenos inexplorados de sí mismo, cuestionar la naturaleza de la realidad y del arte, de la experiencia que está viviendo. Es un espejo que refleja simultáneamente la obra, el proceso creativo y la experiencia del espectador, una puesta en abismo vertiginosa como el presente puro. El film presenta una realidad interna, proyecta una mente llena de emociones y memorias cambiantes, pero sobre todo genera un juego temporal, difumina la división entre el pasado, el presente y el futuro, y captura un Ahora exacerbado.
An Imaginary Film is an experiment. It is both a book and a full-length film, a work in which two mediums are discussing and inducing questions about the perception of reading and watching a movie. The form exposes the content. An Imaginary Film is an audiovisual and written essay that follows a consciousness, a train of thought, a gaze. It proposes a game to the spectator: to take a look into the inner world, to walk around the unexplored terrains of the self, to wonder about the nature of reality and art, about the experience being lived in the present tense. It is a mirror on which simultaneously are reflected the work, the creative process, and the spectators' experience, a vertiginous "mise en abyme" of the pure present. The film shows an internal reality, projects a mind full of emotions and shifting memories. Furthermore, it plays with time. By melting future, past, and present it creates an exacerbated Now.
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