Keeper of the Masques -Experimental Cine-Arte Feature (1h50m)
Keeper of the Masques
Feature-length experimental cine-arte film (1h50m)
Keeper of the Masques is a feature-length experimental film developed through an extended process of immersive installation, fringe-festival performance, and long-term laboratory research at Teatro Jaguar Luna in Costa Rica. Drawing on mask-based performance, puppetry, and sculptural environments, the film assembles a mythic and perceptual narrative that emerges from years of spatial, material, and cinematic experimentation. Rather than being produced through a conventional studio pipeline, the work is an amalgamation of installations, live works, and evolving visual systems—treating cinema itself as a living, physical process shaped by environments, performance, and audience encounter.
The film explores the human mask as both an inner and outer condition, moving between internal perception, social projection, and the unstable space in between. Structured as three interwoven sub-stories, the work unfolds through sculptural, live-action characterizations that function as visual and psychological tableaux. Many of the mask forms, projection techniques, and symbolic interfaces developed during the creation of Keeper of the Masques later informed the Jaguar Portals immersive installation, where those visual and perceptual systems are reconfigured into a more focused, spatially anchored environment. Conceived not as a theatrical drama but as a sculptural feature film, Keeper of the Masques is intended to be experienced as a living painting—where narrative, image, and form continually reshape one another in time.