Postcard (Or, from afar, you are a mirage)

Postcard (Or, from afar, you are a mirage) (2024)

March 23rd, 20240h 7min

Documentary
0%

Overview

"The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand". This line, taken from a poem by Margaret Atwood, lights the path traced in "Postcard". As the years go by, landscapes transform, take on new meanings, and hold onto joys that will never be regained. The sea and the beach, once stages of happy summers, romances, and encounters, will turn into concentration camps or centers of detention and torture. This occurs across different times and places. In this piece, I embark on a journey through some of my works that explore the relationship between testimony, spaces, and time, engaging in dialogue with the beautiful film directed by Alejandro Segovia in 1972.


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids


Released on: 2004-12-08
Documentary

Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta...

People, Years, Life

People, Years, Life


Released on: 1990-01-01
Documentary

Using images shot in Russia and Armenia from World War I to the 1930s and retrieved from a Soviet fi...

Balkan Inventory

Balkan Inventory


Released on: 2000-11-10
Documentary

Comprised of images shot by amateur photographers and German soldiers in the Balkans from the twenti...

Ghiro ghiro tondo

Ghiro ghiro tondo


Released on: 2007-11-24
Documentary

Inspired by their beloved Dolomite area in Northeast Italy, a battle theater in World Wars I and II,...

Criminal Animals

Criminal Animals


Released on: 1994-01-01
Documentary

In this filmic comment on Fascist ideology - which uses footage from the recently discovered archive...

Full Metal Village

Full Metal Village


Released on: 2007-04-19
Documentary

The film describes the microcosmos of the small village Wacken and shows the clash of the cultures, ...

How to Cook Your Life

How to Cook Your Life


Released on: 2007-05-10
Documentary

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday...

War Game

War Game


Released on: 2024-08-02
Documentary

A bipartisan group of U.S. defense, intelligence, and elected policymakers spanning five presidentia...

How Good to See You Alive

How Good to See You Alive


Released on: 1989-10-19
Drama, Documentary, History

Four years after a military coup overthrew the Brazilian government in 1964, all civil rights were s...

Diary of a Political Tourist

Diary of a Political Tourist


Released on: 2004-10-11
Documentary

Following the 2002 HBO documentary "Journeys with George," Pelosi's irreverent account of George W. ...

Mozart's Sister

Mozart's Sister


Released on: 2024-10-31
Documentary, Music

For the first 18 years of her life, Mozart’s sister shared equal billing with her brother. Musical p...

Election Day

Election Day


Released on: 2007-03-10
Documentary

Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What's the street-level experi...

Melting Snow

Melting Snow


Released on: 2021-04-08
Documentary

Two tons of snow—flown from New Hampshire to Puerto Rico in 1952 in order to “gift” Puerto Ricans a ...

Dig!

Dig!


Released on: 2004-05-14
Documentary, Music

A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy W...

In the Realms of the Unreal

In the Realms of the Unreal


Released on: 2004-01-15
Documentary

In the Realms of the Unreal is a documentary about the reclusive Chicago-based artist Henry Darger. ...

The Whale and the Raven

The Whale and the Raven


Released on: 2019-09-05
Documentary

Director Mirjam Leuze’s The Whale and The Raven illuminates the many issues that have drawn whale re...

You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...

You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...


Released on: 1986-08-27
Documentary

Short directed by Agnès Varda in 1986 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the French Cinemath...

The Yes Men

The Yes Men


Released on: 2003-09-07
Comedy, Documentary

A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they ga...

Who's Afraid of the Bogeyman

Who's Afraid of the Bogeyman


Released on: 1989-11-01
Documentary

Portrait of a private coal company in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district in 1988/89. The feisty ...

Nude Portraits – Gundula Schulze

Nude Portraits – Gundula Schulze


Released on: 1984-04-20
Documentary

Photographer Gundula Schulze wrote her graduate thesis on "nude photography of women in East Germany...