Terra Incognita
2018
8m37s

Terra Incognita unfolds as an autobiographical story told from the perspective of a woman living with Charles Bonnet syndrome, a condition experienced by people who have lost most of their sight, causing them to see things that are not really there. As vision fades, the brain compensates by generating vivid, lifelike images: sometimes frightening, sometimes gentle or absurd, always seamlessly integrated into the person’s surroundings. These visions are purely visual, without sound or smell, like a distant cinema playing entirely within the mind.

In Terra Incognita, the protagonist recounts moments from her past, present, and future, though it remains uncertain whether what we see are hallucinations or real events. The film invites us to question the need to separate fiction from reality: when someone is utterly convinced of the truth of their experience, who decides what is real and what is imagined?