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Mirage

  • Gairah Praskovia
    Director
    Art Director
  • Gairah Praskovia
    Writer
    Animator
  • Gairah Praskovia
    Producer
    Illustrator
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Music Video
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 48 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 17, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    175 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Distribution Information
  • Youtube
    Sales Agent
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: Internet
Director Biography - Gairah Praskovia

Gairah Praskovia was born in the 1995, in Ferrol, Spain. Passionate about art since she was a child, she studied Illustration and went to live to Japan and be nourished by its culture, something very appreciable in her work. She later returned to Spain to continue her career as an illustrator. Her work navigates between the erotic and the grotesque with a bit of sweetness. Since 2015 she began her first collective exhibitions until, finally, she was able to exhibit alone a few months later and so on until today, little by little she has been uniting her work as an illustrator with that of a 2D animator to give life to her works.
In addition to being an Illustrator, she also works as a performer and plays the theremin, of whose musical pieces she makes her own video clips with 2D animations.

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Director Statement

Video clip made for the rebel jazz group Demo Rumudo, on their first EP Consecuencias.
Red flows from beginning to end in all its shades from the most diluted form to the purest red. The woman, the central figure of the composition, with her hands tied, has a head in the hole that ends in her face, showing the background of the composition, with a hairless head inside it. This is meant to represent dichotomous thinking.
The initial agony among the school of fish that drowns her while she cannot move begins to transform little by little into a chimerical being that ends up being snakes. It is here when the rays of yellow light illuminate her figure to the rhythm of the music, making the creatures disappear for a few seconds.
Everything begins to cloud over to cause a greater sense of visual stress to the viewer with clouds that accompany the snakes. It seems to calm down a little more when these beings begin to turn into a new chimerical being with wings, to form butterflies.
Then the beings disappear to make room for two humanoids dancing around the central figure, praising the figure to the rhythm of the music, giving her their energies, and next to these humanoids are joined by figures of two bears, who represent the strength they give to the figure to which they dance so that it can be untied. So, with these last two characters disappearing, the central figure begins to untie himself from her ropes and dances freely.
To finish off, the main figure returns to her initial place to repeat what he has already experienced and return to the beginning of her delirium.