Recollection

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.

Directed & Produced by Vishal Shah & Renata Kudlacek
Origination: Super 8mm
Duration: 1'00" Loop
Authorship: 2010
Distribution Format: DVD PAL
Aspect Ratio: 4:3