Er is een geest van mij / Hay un fantasma mío
Experimental, non-fiction short. 6 min, 2021.
Distribution enquiries: info@li-ma.nl.
An attempt at mourning both personal and political futures that never arrived, organised around a broad interpretation of the trope of the ghost. We see depersonalised figures, urban ruins, consuming fires and microscopic images of decaying bodily matter — set to a poem that shifts between Spanish and Dutch.
Screenings
2021
International Film Festival Rotterdam - Tiger Shorts Competition, NL
Simulacrum x De Uitkijk, Mythen, NL.
VERS Film Awards, LAB111, NL.
Seoul International New Media Festival, Korea.
LI-MA Presents: New Work, LAB111, NL
25FPS Festival - Competition, Croatia.
Guanajuato International Film Festival - Competition, Mexico.
Videoex - Competition, Switzerland.
Olhar de Cinema, Curtiba, Brasil.
Festifreak - La Plata IFF, Argentina
Videoex - Competition, Switzerland.
Kasseler Dokfest - Paracapitalism, Germany.
Zebra Poetry Film Festival - Competition, Germany.
2022
W139, From the verge looking inwards, NL.
Glasgow Short Film Festival - Bill Douglas Intl. competition, Scotland
New works from the LIMA collection (selected by Barbara London), NL
Lima Alterna Film Festival – Peruvian Competition, Peru.
Bogoshorts – Experimental Competition, Colombia.
2025
Labocine: Micrographia, Online.
Press
VERS
Cineville
IFFR Afterthought
VERS
UK Film Review
Fred FM
EYE International
Credits
a film by Mateo Vega
developed as part of ZOILA127
additional cinematography Ravi Breukers
sound recording Robin Stark
theatrical mix Olmo van Straalen
mask design Lexy Ho-Tai
typeface Charlotte Rohde
supported by Netherlands Film Fund