Hallucination short film

writer, director and producer: Mohammad Eshraghi

Time: 19 Min and 53 Sec

Year: 2022

Genre: (psychology and mystery)

Frame: 2048 * 858 : 2.391 aspect ratio ultra red wide


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cast & crew


cast: Shahab Bahrami, Saeed Azimi, Ehsan Khan mohammadi, Afshin Vaezi, Hamed Moqadasi ,Alireza Nik Khah, Mahmuod Rashidi, Morteza Safaie Naieni, Ali Hajiluo, Ariana Mahmuodi

Assistant Director: Erfan Babaei

Executive Production: Erfan Babaei

Casting Manager: Arman Mehrabi

Director of Cinematogerphy: Mohsen Estiri


Assistant Cameraperson: Mehdi Estiri , ali nikzad

Sound Department: Salman Bahmani , mir mohammad mehdi Salmani

Editor: Mohammad Eshraghi

VFX Supervisor: Omid Eqbal pur

Music: Mehdi Gaieni

Production Sound Mixer: Mehdi Gaieni


Makeup Department:

Yasaman Khosravan, Sepehr Bahrami

Project Consultant:

Mojtaba Shafiee

Assistant Producer:

Omid Mohammadui Peykar


know more ABOUT Hallucination

You can see poster, synopsis, director's resume and statement and watch the trailer in here

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Synopsis

The movie is about people who seek for shelter in drugs since they cannot handle acute life problems and now are stuck in a mysterious limbo. Nonetheless, not unconsciously, rather in absolute awareness. The protagonist-antagonist intends to drag himself to a neverland to find drugs. Where many junky monkeys live. This ridiculous! This brave! This eerie!


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statement 

Hallucination has a vague connection with reality. In the movie, we encounter a multisided process of hallucination – illusion of the characters regarding the environment, delusion of the characters towards each other and towards themselves.

Combined with the impact of the drugs these characters take, everything goes to an exaggerated extent. That is why the movie is counted as a representative of the contemporary world.

In the end, the line between hallucination and reality breaks apart; but not for the characters, rather for us as observers who realize that whatever is seen has been originated from the inner thoughts of Shahab,

,the protagonist-antagonist of the story
The important point is here. Shahab is aware of his situation but evades it. Hence, the delusion is intentional. But if there is an illusion, and we are not haunted by a fallen ghost in Purgatory.

But what is the reason for all these complexities? The answer is simple. Everything has to do with the world we live in, the world that is more complicated than before, the world of irresponsible humans who overreact to life events and escape the reality. And therefore, everything collapses.


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Director's Resume

Mohammad Eshraghi

Date of birth: 1992/08/09

Place of birth: Iran - Tehran

AD of Sound (Mojtama Fanni of Tehran)

Film Production (Mojtama Fanni of Tehran)

Internship of Film Director at Karnameh Institute under the supervision of “Shahram Mokri”

BSc of Commercial Management

Making more than 70 industrial documentaries for Iran’s national TV as the director, production designer and production manager

Making commercial teasers and trailers and visual clips

Production management in preparing content for social media of governmental companies and organizations

Producing industrial videos and Promotional (Ad) videos for workshops, factories, and various brands

And years of work in many video projects

While this is my first professional short film as the director and the designer, it is the result of years of work in the areas related to cinema. Especially, making various documentaries as the director and the Production designer prepared me for this. Writing, however, is my greatest asset, where I try to visualize emotions. Hallucination, as my first professional short film, is the result of years of experience in the picture industry.

Modernity and human mind

Modernity has had a great impact on improving human performance in all aspects of life. From increasing time for leisure to facilitating daily tasks, it is one of the advantages of leaping to the modern world and technology. In recent decades, the development of societies has been growing rapidly. On the other hand, despite these advances, problems such as class differences, poverty, social issues, cultural and economic instability still affect people's present and future. At the same time as these issues, the mind of modern man has expanded and has a more curious, perfectionist and accurate view in all aspects of life. And with the knowledge he gets daily from technology and social media, he is unconsciously involved in comparing himself with the modern world. These thoughts sometimes lead to fear of the future, a feeling of backwardness, and a feeling of inadequacy for people. When these thoughts are combined with the reality of the surrounding world, it causes destructive emotions such as anxiety, fear, helplessness, violence and sometimes loss of mental stability.Statistics also show that there is a direct relationship between economic disturbances and violence in all societies, and frustration, along with fear of the future and constant anxiety, is one of the important engines of violence, anxiety and depression in societies.Hallucination short film in the criminal, psychological genre plunges us into a space in the deep layers of modern human frustrations. Where a person is subject to mental events.

Hallucination short film in the criminal, psychological genre plunges us into a space in the deep layers of modern human frustrations. Where a person is subject to mental events.



Awards & Honors


- selected at the 3rd Guttercast Film Festival of America

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