15 min, 1080p, 2025
Director/Producer/Editor: Pauline Shongov


Two Bulgarian pensioners embark on their first road trip through the American Southwest. Once confined by the borders of the Eastern Bloc, they now venture into the familiar landscape of the Western film genre. Throughout their travels, memories of the past seep into their experience of the present—a landscape of the West that, for over thirty-five years, they have dreamed to see beyond the frame of the TV screen. Now limited in movement by their own aging bodies, they are confined by yet another screen. The window becomes a portal for slow cinema, where the landscape of the West unravels in real time as the distant promise it once held is colored by the allusive, newfound form of its mirage.