Instrucciones para un autorretrato

A short film by Pablo Useros.

This piece belongs to the ongoing series POLITICAL GESTURES, in which I document televised electoral debates captured frame by frame on laboratory emulsions (sound record 7702 or, as in this case, color print). This film captures the only electoral debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on September 10, 2024.

"White Screen starts with the idea that perception is a worldmaking ability. It is simple: a change in the lens’ focus can either allow us to see a tree or a forest, and brings an understanding that these two things exist simultaneously. Then we see a woman (Martos) tying a rope between the trees. Slowly, she makes a cinema space materialize, as she drapes a sheet over the rope. While the night takes its time to fall, the film explores the screen as a new part of the landscape (perhaps something that exists between the tree and the forest) ..." — Lucía Salas

Mystery is what makes reality inexhaustible. Servidumbres de la luz is an indeterminate cloud film shot over two Augusts in Ribeira de Alge, Portugal.