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Recollection
Recollection, 2010
Director & Producer: Vishal Shah & Renata Kudlacek
Origination: Super 8mm
Duration: 1'00" Loop
Distribution Format: DVD PAL
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
We don't retrieve our memories, rather memory recreates itself continuously
and
in doing so produces its own narrative.
The film consists of enlarged sequences from a mix of Super8 films collected
and
produced – cut, sequenced and layered into a moving image collage.
Past and
present is falling into the rafters of an infinite loop. Recollection begins with a hand
reaching for a flower floating in water and emerging from the gentle ripples appears
a little girl aged 9 (Renata) from the visual field, she dances, twirls around and
slowly disappears again. A hand picks off a petal and the form of
what appears
at first glance to be hundreds of butterflies fan outwards. However,
they are not
butterflies, they are moths, since not everything in a recollection
is always beautiful
and dreamlike.
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Video Projection, Kulturzentrum 'Die Fabrik', Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2010