In the years since co-directing For the Plasma and leading Ricky D’Ambrose’s Notes on an Appearance, Bingham Bryant has created a smattering of impressive shorts and made occasional onscreen turns. He’ll premiere his solo feature-directing debut, El espejismo (Mirage), at FID Marseille on Wednesday, and it’s our pleasure to unveil a lovely poster designed by Igor Ramos.
The film, which stars Constance Rousseau (Mia Hansen-Løve’s All is Forgiven, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Daguerrotype) and Rita Azevedo Gomes, is described by the festival succinctly: “Mirages have been reported along the Spanish coast. A young French woman travels to San Sebastián to observe these visual aberrations. There, she meets a mysterious Portuguese woman who tells her a story from her youth: of obsession, and a gaze that can turn the world inside out.”
El espejismo (Mirage) is based on a short story by Japanese writer Edogawa Rampo, and Bryant tells FID Marseille that, in crafting the film, he prioritized extended takes à la Paul Vecchiali “where you could see that the long take was a structuring principle all the way through the film, from the writing, to the budgeting and scheduling, to the emotions of the performances.”
Find the poster below:
