Edited by Nariman Hamed | Music by Johnny Azari Productioncompany Viennale Music director Johnny Azari Executive producer Gaetan Rousseau | |
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Starring Tarek AylouchNatalie Portman Distributed by Sixpack Film (worldwide, all media) Initial release 26 September 2013 (Austria) Similar Women Without Men, GREED - a New Fragranc, Developing, Free Zone, The Death and Life of John F D | ||
Illusions & Mirrors is a 2013 short film directed by Iranian-born American artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat. The film, shot in black-and-white, stars Tarek Aylouch, Michael Markiewicz, and the Israeli-born American actress Natalie Portman. The film was commissioned by Dior, for which Portman is a spokesmodel, for the Miss Dior Expo at the Grand Palais, Paris. Shirin Neshat said that the film is a tribute to the black-and-white silent films made by such surrealist filmmakers as Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, Luis Buñuel, and Maya Deren.
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The film traces the delusions of a young woman, played by Natalie Portman. She is making futile attempts to follow a phantom travelling through the dunes of an empty sea beach, and, when it comes to an encounter in an abandoned house at the end, the woman finds a disturbing surprise.