Life Mirrors Art

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

French documentary about David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive.

A mirror in the filmmaker's backyard reflects his childhood home. The black frame of the watermarked mirror becomes a mysterious portal, distorting brick, branch, and flesh into an amorphous hodgepodge. A self-portrait.

A self-portrait in motion. A journey of self-discovery. "Mirrors" is a first-person short documentary that brings an imaginary plunge into self-portrayed personal processes that were produced at turning points in my life, walking from the day I got lost to the day I found myself on the same portal. : the mirror.

“The idea of the double runs through my work,” observes Jonas. Inspired by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges whose writing imagined that mirrors could open up alternate worlds and possibilities, Jonas began to use reflective surfaces to fragment images, flatten perspective, and double figures and environments. At once a technological device and a theatrical prop, these mirrors allowed the artist to, in her words, “alter the audience’s experience of the space.” [Overview courtesy of MoMA]

The artist faces a mirror on a window. The silvering is scraped away to reveal the trees outside. Another mirror is slowly put back in place.