Fictional Recall - Episode 5 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. "Such a long time ago, my third birthday. A few days before my parents fled the country. With just a suitcase and big hopes, they left their house, their friends, their families, the regime, and me. I didn't know they were leaving until after they'd gone. I stayed with my grandparents while we waited for them to set up a new life and send for me. Like a lucky orphan, loved the cheap plastic toys they used to send me from time to time. I didn't care too much that they'd left me behind. I was three." Shotdate | -location: 2009 Jan. | Valencia (ES) Related tags: itzik, super 8, memory, found, remember, super 8mm, recall, fictional, found footage, collaborative Tip: Found footage digitilized and animated credits. EPISODE 5: Memory: Itzik S. Cohen Projectionist: Urizen Subtitled version here: »link   2,241  Views 12 Comments   »add comment