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memento mori, completes a trilogy of short videos (the two previous being imago & obJet).
memento mori’s material consists entirely of post-mortem photographs of children and it was found on the internet. Post – mortem photography was a common practice in both Europe and America during the 19th and early 20th century. It was especially common with children. It is also referred to as ‘memento mori’ photography.
The video reflects the initial shock and grief experienced when confronted with one’s wounded inner child, one’s dark, frozen layers of pain and loss. It proceeds formally through the use of a simple kind of animation: multiple layers of still images in a varying speed pendulum motion. The animation generates a perpetual emergence figures.
The video is silent; the environmental soundtrack of each specific screening is defined as the 'audio' of memento mori.
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