Casa Etérea
I directed, creative directed and co-art directed Reflecting Nature, a film commissioned by Tape for Casa Etérea—a mirrored house standing alone inside the crater of an extinct volcano outside San Miguel de Allende.
My starting point was simple: what if the house could disappear?
Casa Etérea doesn’t impose itself on the landscape; it reflects it. Sky, earth, vegetation and light move across its mirrored skin until architecture and nature begin to blur. I wanted the film to exist in that same space—somewhere between the physical and the ethereal, observation and introspection.
Rather than documenting the house, I wanted to capture the feeling of inhabiting it. The camera moves between scale and intimacy: volcanic terrain, skin, water, stone, glass, shifting light and the quiet precision of its materials. Everything becomes tactile, almost meditative.
A local horseman and longtime caretaker of the property moves through the film like a ghost of the landscape—part guardian, part witness, grounding this radically contemporary structure in the history and human memory of the land.
There is no dialogue and no voiceover. Image, rhythm, sound and an original score carry the experience. The film was conceived as something to be felt rather than explained: a reflection of nature, but also of the self within it.
Created entirely with Mexican talent, from cinematography through production and music, Reflecting Nature became less a film about a house and more an exploration of what happens when architecture becomes almost invisible—and all that remains is you, the landscape, and the space between them.
The Film
The House
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