While journeying through Southern California, a filmmaker is unexpectedly transported back to Venezuela. This gripping documentary explores how place stirs memory and how the past quietly travels with us.
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Los Angeles FilmForum/ Vartex/ Los Experimentos Ekran
Instructions for Starting at the Mirror - The land I walk recalls the one I lost
In this insightful documentary, Southern California becomes more than a place—it becomes a portal. For the filmmaker, it's deserts, coastlines, and light uncannily mirror the landscapes of Venezuela, bringing forth vivid recollections of early life.
This contemplative film weaves together present-day travel with personal memory, mapping a story of migration, grief, and the emotional terrain of adapting while remembering. In tracing one land, the filmmaker in exile finds traces of another—and of themselves.
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