Mirage

Watch Mirage in release order: Mirage: Metanoia - Prelude (2023) and Mirage: Eigenstate (2024).

A dialogue between particle physics and ideas about the nature of God in tropical Sufi mysticism. It introduces the life and work of sixteenth-century Sumatran philosopher, poet, and Sufi mystic Hamzah Fansuri. In his writings, Fansuri conjectured that God infiltrates every aspect of the universe, down to the smallest particle, and the universe itself is God’s radiating holographic projection on a two-dimensional plane. Toward the end of his life, Fansuri was deemed a heretic and he and his disciples persecuted. His ideas, however, anticipated by several hundred years breakthroughs in particle physics—the notion that the universe is composed of subatomic particles including both matter and antimatter—as well as the holographic principle—the theory that the universe is, in fact, two-dimensional.

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   Mirage: Metanoia - Prelude 2023

   The first in a series that reconfigures and interrelates two parallel modes of inquiry into the nature of reality. Formatted as a Hanna-Barbera and early Disney animation short set in the distant future—moving images…

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   Mirage: Eigenstate 2024

   Modelled after Carl Sagan's classic TV series Cosmos, this film displaces the dominance of Western science and embraces pluralistic worldviews - from tropical Sufi mysticism and monorealism to theories of quantum…