Image Room

3 min, 16mm transferred to digital, hand processed, BW, silent, 2019.

"Image Room" is a non-narrative film, and a hybridization of cinematic references, lyricism, realism, and fiction, seeking to explore a self-reflexive image, containing itself being filmed again with the protagonists watching themselves. Contextually, the film belongs between the black box and the white cube. 

"Image Room" challenges "The White Gaze" as the default observing gaze, and as the central aspect of a spectacle, while reflecting on the [European] history of cinema—referencing Godard's "Bande à part" and Bergman's "The Seventh Seal".

In "Image Room" the gaze of the camera, portrays the gaze of the protagonist at his image, implying the fundamental place of narcissism in the creation of subject out of an objectified image. In other words, the image mirrors itself and directly point out to the cinematic spectatorship and to itself as a spectacle. The film contains images as bearers of memory; some fainted, and some crystal, and images representing the process in which the film has been made, such as hanging and rolling the negatives, watching the negatives in the editing table.