Shot on the island of Lanzarote Proposal for an unmade film (set in the future) weaves together the extraordinary, shattered, volcanic landscape of the Timonfaya National Park and the ‘retro-futuristic’ utopian architecture of artist César Manrique.
Proposal... implies that it is assembled from ‘location recce’ and audition footage; the by-product of a pre-production process for a low budget science fiction film/architectural documentary, developed this far, abandoned, and only later discovered in an archive.
The suggested narrative that emerges from this found footage is that of a visitor attempting to create a paradise on earth – a story apparently influenced by Nick Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth – in which volcanic bubbles become time capsules, buildings become space ships and sculptural mobiles become radio antenna.

16mm; Duration: 21:00 mins; Distributed by LUX

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/730