autofiction • moving image
Sunset
Short Essay
2023 - 3’30” | Digital | Color | Sound | English with subtitles
Spain
*Work available under request: pedroborbamendes@gmail.com
Excerpt from "Sunset" (2023)
A poetic meditation on the small, recurring rituals that form our sense of place. Here, the collective act of watching the sun disappear behind the horizon becomes a quiet symbol of belonging. Through personal narration and found footage, I reconstruct the idiosyncrasies of my hometown — not as it is, but as it persists in memory and myth.
As the film progresses, its constructed nature slowly reveals itself. This shift — from immersion to reflexivity — questions the stability of memory and the emotional authenticity of images. In doing so, the work embraces the blurred edges between truth and fiction, suggesting that even artifice can be a faithful witness to genuine feeling.





