Er is een geest van mij / Hay un fantasma mío

An attempt at mourning both personal and political futures that never arrived, organised around a broad interpretation of the trope of the ghost. We see depersonalised figures, urban ruins, consuming fires and microscopic images of decaying bodily matter – set to a poem that shifts between Spanish and Dutch.

I'm greatly inspired by ideas of hauntology, once described by Mark Fisher as a "nostalgia for futures that never arrived”, in which the notion of the ghost is used as a metaphor for something that is both there and not there: the present being perpetually haunted by traces of the past and its failed futures. After encountering this theory, a lot of ideas I’d been already reflecting on – consciously or unconsciously – fell into place. In that way, I was able to associatively link different themes and textures through notions of lost futures and ghosts. (M. V.)