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24.09.25
Staffordshire St Project Space
How can film itself act as both witness and interpreter of what we recall? And how might the fragile materials and technologies of cinema mirror the fragility of memory itself?
Taken together, these films invite us to reflect on how memory is formed, lost, and reshaped, both on screen and in our own lives.
Programme:
10 Megabytes of Memory
Markus Maicher, 2021, 2 mins
What is the meaning of "memory" in the digital age? For humans memory refers to subjective images of past events, for computers memory refers to an objective capacity to store information. The film compresses 10 human years in 10 megabytes of binary information and employs an aesthetics of the small file format, a counter strategy against the ever increasing resolution, bitrate and (environmental) costs of digital images.
Fovéa
Pierre-Manuel Lemarchand & Emmanuel Piton, 2014, 8' 54 mins
In the blink of an eye, a body confronts the memory of a place that may never have existed. Space wavers, and memory is perforated.
Strawberries in Summertime
Jennifer Reeves, 2013, 15' 52 mins
A 2.5-year-old boy revels in all things tiny and huge around a farm. His father shares his delight in climbing, animals and bugs. A mother observes with a camera and then departs into flowing fields and forest. A fleeting landscape glows with the delicate tensions between distance & intimacy and wonders & pains of raising a young life. Black and white positive, negative and solarised images toned in copper and blue, and a soundscape of nature, song and the boy’s budding voice, evoke the texture of memory.
Toyokoro
Maki Satake, 2000-2012, 13’40 mins
After her family moves away from their hometown of Toyokoro, the filmmaker uses footage from her archive of VHS tapes to examine and preserve the sites of cherished family memories. Returning to these sites, she records herself re-engaging with the places of her formative years.