The Jamais Vécu Video Poetry Festival, dedicated to exploring personal and collective memory and its impact on our lives, is hosting a revival screening of the 1959 film «Hiroshima, My Love.»
The video serves as both an invitation to the screening and a statement from the festival’s creators.
The central metaphor of the video is a puzzle, symbolizing the attempt to reassemble a memory fragmented by trauma. Throughout the narrative, the assembly is fundamentally never completed.
The void between elements remains, visualizing the presence of gaps in memory following traumatic experience.
Structure
The foundation lies in the conflict between memory (the attempt to assemble the past) and time (the resistance to this assembly). For this, the work recreates the structure of a film, with time becoming the protagonist of the narrative.
The opening titles of the video are stylized after 20th-century black-and-white cinema, simultaneously introducing the narrative and forming the first part of the project.
The titles may be used separately for short show announcements.
In the second part, the narrative proceeds through selected film frames and inserts featuring a poetic representation of time—as the idea of fragile, unreliable memory.
The stills from the film were selected based on the principle of the physical presence of time within the scene or moment of the plot.
The inserts featuring poetic imagery are first generated and animated, and then converted to 20fps. Each frame is printed, scanned, and reassembled into stop-motion.
Stylistic solution
Black-and-white film, shot on film and broadcast on an old television with static and muffled sound.
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