Instructions for Staring at the Mirror

  • 10 10
  • 2022
  • 16min
Instructions for Staring at the Mirror
  • Original Title: Instrucciones para mirarse al espejo

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.

Instructions for Staring at the Mirror
Awards

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.

Production Companies

Edgar Jorge Baralt


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