MÍRAME

In a remote corner of the Canary Islands, an outcast suicidal teen helps a sea-witch escape from plastic trash, and receives a magical gift of visibility in return. “Mírame” (Look At Me) is the story of an outcast teenager in the Canary Islands, who attempts to drown herself after being ignored by her peers. This leads her to a witch’s underwater cave, where - after freeing the witch from plastic pollution - she receives a radical gift: the promise that she will finally be visible to her peers when she returns to the land of the living. “Mírame” explores the uncomfortable juxtaposition of the tourist world of Lanzarote with the lost African flavor of the island, and the mystery of a damaged planet underneath us all. It fuses childhood dreams of nature with the tragicomic mundaneness of the human world.

This film was produced, shot, directed, and edited by Ari Gold as a one-person crew, under the mentorship of Werner Herzog, with the theme "filming a strange planet".

The performers were all first-time actors, chosen from the local population of Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain.