.. is an experimental documentary film departing from a pair of “before and after” daguerreotypes to dig through different layers of disremembering.
Made in 1848 with the explicit intention of rushing them to publication, these images display seemingly desolate barricades prior to and after a clash between revolutionaries and the French National Guard. The slow shutter speed prohibited the actual event to be captured, yet the gap between these two separate photographs creates a cinematic space where visible and invisible impressions collide.
It is from this space that the project looks at our ongoing need for intricate processes of interpretation, focussing on how aspects of invisibility can lead to fear and more specifically at how the working class is being misrepresented and rendered invisible. Mixed with personal footage and elements of fiction, the film probes the myths around class and considers the struggle for recognition and visibility.
... is a film in progress selected for development at SIC.