Ektachrome

A few years ago, I bought a stock of printed Super 8 films at a flea market. They were the travel souvenirs of a single family from 1970 to 1980. There's a paradox of family film: these memories are both extremely intimate and perfectly common. So they're very boring to watch, unless they're about your own family. After tedious viewing, I felt I had a mission to do something with all these memories. I thought perhaps the passion of the amateur filmmaker lay in capturing light and transforming it into emotion.

So I followed in his footsteps, capturing and transforming this light as matter: light matter from Tunisia, fossil light from Morocco or Brittany... While the computer scrolls through the films, EKTACHROME's software chromatically decomposes the image and reorganizes the grains of silver oxide in synchronization with electroacoustic music. The result is a hypnotic visual journey that attempts to reconstruct the process of creating emotion and memory.

Digital print 58 x 43 cm