Fosfeno

Miguel Filgueiras’s, Phosphene, focuses on the Garrano, a native horse breed of the northwestern Iberian Peninsula, a mythical animal that embodies the connection between humans and nature. The film immerses us in the mountains of northern Portugal, where shepherds have been hunting wolves for decades to protect their flocks.

Halfway between fiction, archival footage, and reality, it explores the boundary between myth and experience, between the comfort of reality and the strangeness of the imagination. Each image reveals the strength and courage of both those filming and those being filmed, weaving a fable about the confrontation between humanity and the power of nature, between the wild, the untamed, and the civilized.

Through this phosphene, a poetic gaze on the relationships between humans and animals, Miguel Filgueiras questions our interactions with the natural world and shows how myths and realities overlap to shape our shared experiences.