Mirage
In order to escape his mundane existence, Ali, a 13 year old boy, finds refuge in the magic of his screen. Amidst the quiet whispers of desert sands, “Mirage” explores the unsettling echoes of virtual disconnection.
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In order to escape his mundane existence, Ali, a 13 year old boy, finds refuge in the magic of his screen. Amidst the quiet whispers of desert sands, “Mirage” explores the unsettling echoes of virtual disconnection.
A young man inherits a broken down estate at the edge of the Peruvian desert, with no explanation about the former owners or what had become of the once thriving house.
This is an alternate version to Oasis of Mirrors (2013), exploring the aeolian processes of desert sand movement.
This short film holds up a mirror to the irreversible consequences of war on people. Although it is painful, it is a reality that the Patriotic War, which lasted 44 days on the calendar, actually lasted a lifetime for ve
A young man falls asleep on a train as it's drifting through an unnamed island in rural Goa.
An intriguing inside-out view of moving figures and images, made by using a color negative print. Figures and faces appear in a shimmering haze. These are shades of people and of movements, appearing, retreating, as in a
Modelled after Carl Sagan's classic TV series Cosmos, this film displaces the dominance of Western science and embraces pluralistic worldviews - from tropical Sufi mysticism and monorealism to theories of quantum mechani
"The artist looks at scenes of a woman (Pour Hosseini) and a man at the Iranian Maranjab Desert through the texture of a film strip on top of it, and through its sprocket holes. Dirt, flare, and red ink printed on the ce
Le Mirage is the perspective of a man in his thirties asking himself "what am I chasing?" Our society has become all about consumerism, if not excess. Success is determined by what and how much we have and "stuff" become
Mirage was designed specifically for the screening room of Anthology Film Archives in New York's SoHo neighborhood, where Joan Jonas first performed the piece on several nights over a few weeks in 1976, for an audience o
A woman joins forces with a journalist to investigate secrets her fiancé was keeping from her after she is informed he has died in a tragic train accident.
"Abstraction in Gehr behaves like an X-ray, revealing unexpected patterns of order under the skin of things. A film like Mirage, one of those most sensuous of Gehr’s abstract films may resemble superficially a strip pai
Mirage is a visionary, metaphysical journey that uses the unique art form of dance-animation.
To avoid being put in memory care by his son, a man with Alzheimer's runs away to visit his deceased brother in Las Vegas.
A young man searches the city at night for a woman and is led by her into an initiation ritual.
A self-portrait, Mirage exposes Mendieta's naked body in nature reflected in a mirror. She holds a gourd and stabs it open to let its seeds fly away.
A young man comes to Stockholm, Sweden and experiences several bizarre and surrealistic situations.