dupes
hand-blown glass, alchool, artificial essences
2026
The film follows the statues through the different lighting and atmospheric conditions, simulating the day/night cycle and the shadows cast by the nearby vegetation. As the camera moves closer, their recognisable human shapes gradually disappear: close-ups reveal eroded rocky concretions and layers of moss that, magnified by the digital gaze, transform into landscapes of hills, caves and valleys. While this transformation occurs before the spectator’s eyes, the internal day/night succession speeds up to the point where days last only seconds, exceeding human temporality.
As the film progresses, the solitary voice that fills the dark space in which the statues are immersed slows down into an indistinct murmur, losing its human tone into a marmoreal reverb.
The realistic aspiration of the film is ultimately challenged by a bridge-section, which presents a Lidar scanner operating, as a human voice questions the technological gaze that rendered the images.