Miami skyline at sunset with palm trees
A dispatch from the pink haze

MIAMIis not aREAL PLACE — Street stories from the unreal city

Real stories. Unreal city. A media project chasing the ghosts, dreamers and neon myths of a city that keeps rewriting itself between sunrises.

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Interviews
12
Neighborhoods
1
Impossible city
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Pink flamingo at neon sunset
02 — The Project

About the Mirage

Miami Is Not a Real Place is an ongoing field study of a city that behaves more like a mood than a map. We roll cameras on sidewalks, in botanicas, at 4 AM bodegas — anywhere the myth is thin enough to see through.

Every episode is a short, cinematic street interview. No filters, no ad reads, no explainers. Just the people who make this fever-dream of a coastline hum.

Filmed on 35mm-emulated digital. Edited to the hum of the Metromover. Released whenever the humidity says so.

Format
Docu-shorts, 6–20 min
Cadence
Bi-weekly episodes
Filmed
Miami-Dade, on foot
Since
Summer of '24
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New street interviews land every other Friday. Subscribe on YouTube, or lurk on the gram — either way, you're in it now.