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PORTRAITS OF AN UNVERIFIED SELF
PORTRAITS OF AN UNVERIFIED SELF

PORTRAITS OF AN UNVERIFIED SELF

RETRATOS DE UM EU NÃO VERIFICÁVEL

Web / New Media, Experimental,

Portugal

2026

Runtime, min

14

Portraits of an Unverified Self operates in the unstable interval between identity, play, and technology. The vertical film/installation proposes a succession of figures that do not fix a subject, but rehearse multiple possibilities of presence, recognition, and failure. From the author's own image, mutant figures emerge—visual heteronyms—that oscillate between recognition and estrangement, maintaining a fragile connection to the original body. The self fragments, dissolves, and reappears as a flow and process in permanent instability. By appropriating the ecosystem of smartphones and mobile applications, the work shifts the logic of digital self-exposure to a territory of poetic and speculative deviation. Artificial intelligence emerges as an agent of mutation and not of synthesis, producing images that resist verification and identity coherence. AI functions here as a device of deviation: a playful, ironic, and sometimes disturbing mirror, closer to delirium than to optimization.
Vasco Diogo

Director:

Vasco Diogo

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REVIEWS:

This is not cinema. It's just a screen glitching for 14 minutes. Total waste of time.

Live Screenings Attendee

I don't understand this kind of video art. The constant morphing of faces was just disturbing.

Live Screenings Attendee

The vertical smartphone format makes the digital fragmentation feel incredibly personal. Visually striking.

Live Screenings Attendee

Requires intense visual focus.

Live Screenings Attendee

A brilliant installation piece. It captures the unstable nature of our digital selves perfectly.

Live Screenings Attendee

The vertical smartphone format was interesting.

Live Screenings Attendee

Very experimental, not for everyone.

Sharma Priya

The unstable, shifting images gave me a headache.

Paulo Costa

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