Fictional Recall - Episode 2 FICTIONAL RECALL This is a collaborative project based on resurrecting forgotten memories. I purchased a plastic bag full of Super 8 reels for 10€ at the flea market. When screening them at home i discovered that what i had in my hands was nothing but somebody's family memories. After the first shock, i began to feel really disgusted by the fact of this memories being sold, rejected or, at least, forgotten. I projected all the footage and cut it in one minute length clips which didn't follow any intention or idea and that i offered to writers to give them a second life. The idea was to invent a fictional context for those memories with unknown origin, to write a story in first person that made them their own. So those orphan keepsakes could recover the lost value. And in a certain way, the idea was also to emulate the way our own memory works. "My father was a dolphin trainer. Saying it, it sounds really fanciful, almost magical, to have a father who trained dolphins. In truth, there wasn’t any magic to it at all. Yes, he coaxed the wondrous beasts high into the air, where they would spin and flip and laugh their staccato laugh. Those little whales would do just about anything for a handful of dead fish. He would work with them day after day, even night after night teaching them new tricks to please the crowds. The time he was with them was time he spent away from our home, from our lives. It’s true that sometimes Marnie and I would get to come to the park. He’d even work us into the act. But we were never the stars of the show or his life. Dad would come home smelling of sardines and seawater. I hated that smell, the smell of his other family. Looking back, I can’t say I blame them for taking my father away from us. Trapped at sea and torn from their parents, they were orphans themselves." Shotdate | -location: 2008 Nov. | Valencia (ES) Related tags: memory, found, remember, sixblueten, recall, fictional, footage, resurrect Tip: Found footage digitilized and animated credits. EPISODE 2: Memory: Sixblueten Projectionist: Urizen Better quality version here: »link   1,597  Views 9 Comments   »add comment