[a small file video essay of only 4MB size – made for the Small File Media Festival 2024]

The poor images are also porous – open to be a more true archive of film history.

We buy the remastered editions of our favorite films. Yet what we love so much is not there. The pristine images can become a barrier, suppressing the memories we look for. Rendered invisible by high resolution.

But in this blurred vision we find them again. While watching this famous scene – itself a meditation on loss and emptiness – we have to replenish what the images lack. Here is a cinema for us to re-member.