Reverie
Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar Romero
Additional Screening
𖤘 Short: Experimental
Reverie is a short experimental film exploring the seductive yet destructive presence of plastic in our world. Through the image of a single plastic sheet animated by the wind, the film reflects on plastic’s dual nature: once celebrated for its lightness, beauty, and promise of convenience, it now embodies suffocation, fragility, and ecological harm. The sheet moves fluidly, sometimes resembling something alive, sometimes ghostly or menacing, blurring the line between allure and threat.
The work invites viewers into a contemplative space, questioning how something designed to be so useful and enchanting became a symbol of planetary crisis. By isolating a simple yet universally recognizable object, Reverie amplifies its poetic and unsettling qualities, offering a meditation on desire, illusion, and the environmental consequences of human invention.
Gómez-Cortázar Romero’s practice focuses on the ephemerality of the environment and its connection to the passage of time. His work – ranging from lens-based to curatorial – highlights our world’s transient nature and presents the familiar as unique and transcendent. He examines details and features of the landscape as a means to honor and restore our innate and intimate connection with Earth and its elements.
Production: Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar Romero
Courtesy of the artist