This mirror-thing, instead of merely reflecting images, takes the image and makes it look like a painting.
In November 2004, it had its offshore World Premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in the Netherlands where it was shown as part of the non-competition Reflecting Images section.
Just like looking closer in a mirror, it's not the reflected image that gets magnified but the reflective surface.
Another picture of the Shah in the palace, for example, is a fugue of mirrors and reflections, like Velázquez's painting "Las Meninas," with the tiny reflected image of Sevruguin and his camera in the far background corner.
That is the reflected image of the painting which he is engaged in painting.
Or is his broiling, almost preternatural hostility merely the reflected image of his mother's repressed but nonetheless projected anger?
In the tale, a hunter stoops to wash his face in a stream and sees a silver thread stretched across the reflected image of the sun.
Finally it is a regal portrait: the mirror on the rear wall contains the reflected image of Philip IV and his queen, Maria Anna.
"I'm looking at him upside down and him looking at me looking like Lincoln," he says, describing the reflected image of a shooter behind him.
Shortly thereafter artists began using it to facilitate drawing, with the subject posed outside and the reflected image traced on a piece of drawing paper.
