SYNESTHESIE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Esteban Carrasco
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, sensual
In a world clinging to appearances, the film puts the spectator in the skin of a visually impaired woman for whom beauty cannot be superficial; through sound, she discovers that even in an art gallery, the synesthesia of her senses opens an extraordinary voyage.
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Synesthesia flips the script on gallery cinema in a way that feels genuinely unsettling—most films would use sound design as wallpaper, but this one makes blindness the portal to *actual* seeing, which is the kind of conceptual inversion that makes consensus squirm.
Carrasco positions this work in the lineage of sensory cinema and expanded documentary practice, where the formal constraint of audio-only perception becomes a rigorous interrogation of how we encounter art; the editing discipline between sound and silence speaks to a curator's hand.
The synesthetic leap here hinges entirely on one decision—to trust the gallery soundscape itself as the image—and that choice, sustained across two minutes with zero visual compromise, transforms what could've been a gimmick into something that genuinely restructures how we listen.