This series takes the form of road movie. Reindeer-Man’s search for his own identity is the impulse that drives him to take to the road. The action takes place in Norway and, through Reindeer-Man´s adventures, the viewer explores a social landscape, a document. At the same time, the narrative on this graphic novel opens space for fantasy.

There is no script. It is a real expedition where unknown people found on the way have stopped their daily activities to help create a fable and become interpreters of themselves.

I give my images a cinematographic touch. In this way, my subjects become my actors, landscapes look like sets and an intriguing surrealism shapes the documentary into a strange fiction.

The introduction of a fiction character makes real life shine with strangeness.

Reindeer-Man, under his friendly figure, stealthily infiltrates in an everyday scene. He challenges the inertia of that context to reveal the invisible frames from which the common sense of the people is organized.

Reindeer-Man is an interference on common sense. Under his presence the invisible (and unquestioned) filters become evident. These filters are usually assumed automatically and through them we create certain criteria order and nature of the everyday

The story takes the shape of a coming-of-age story is (Bildungsroman), a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist wherein character change therefore is an important part of the story.

LUCIA HERRERO