The Oblivion of Mirrors is a film set in the Peruvian Amazon that connects past and present through documentary, fiction and 3D animation. It reflects on the Western gaze and its extractivist practices, particularly the rubber boom of the 19th and 20th centuries. By means of an immersive experience and the manifestation of specters from a tormented past, the film proposes a conversation around how the region has been historically forgotten and how we tend to see this space as alien.

Shot from a first-person perspective and guided only by the sounds of nature, the film presents an exploration of the jungle from dawn to dusk. The journey is contemplative, similar to the outsider’s gaze filled with desire. Slowly, the film subverts this gaze by introducing an ethereal presence during the night. These images propose a visual language based on the contrast between the natural and the artificial, speaking about our ability to forget and our fear to face that which we don’t want to see.