This project was born out of my desire to collaborate with my father, a painter, and explore the cinematic roots that connect all his work. Both of us had studied film-making abroad, but neither had ultimately dedicated ourselves to cinema.
First, I went through my father's image archive, selecting every representative character from the different periods of his work, including his self-portraits. What I enjoyed the most was sitting with him, and talking about each one of the character.
The main character, one prevalent throughout my father's work, was agreed to be my mother. More precisely, a younger version of her from the period immediately after my father finished his cinema studies, and distorted perspectives where common in his paintings.
To place the story in a well defined time period the main character was given the particular set of glasses seen in the picture. Furthermore, the central element in the story, the window, followed a design popular in architecture from the chosen time period.
“Some saint I can't remember said that to go to places you don't know, you have to go through paths you don't know.”