Maya Connors

Louis Fried goes in search of traces in the Hamburg district of Hammerbrook. An area in whose appearance war and Nazi rule are inscribed to this day. Between wasteland and reconstruction, memorials and urban planning, he encounters his own family history.

Set in the Argentinian coastal town Villa Gesell, built on sand dunes in the 1930s, “The Dunes Said” delves into the town's origins, creating a parallel fiction in which an interrupted report on sand dune memory opens up to let us ponder wider themes of the relationship between humans and nature and how history is created.

In biology, an organism is any individual entity that exhibits the properties of life. It is a synonym for life form. A life form travels across the universe and lands on this planet. Who it is, what it looks like, remains unclear. It could be many, it could be everywhere. Children, a meteorite, algae, fish, old women, the character Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet or a computer program. Diary of an Organism is a footage film in various senses: made out of images found in Internet archives, of own images and text fragments, remnants of several former films never used, but always remembered. Different forms of collecting, archiving, remembering and organizing dehierarchically shape the films rhythm becoming a sensory impression, "gelatinous", like the jellyfish in it.

An autobiographical and science fiction essay, in the tradition of Marker, whose core of paranoid anxiety has to do with the limits of identity: the concepts of "inside" and "outside" are deconstructed on the basis of diseases and an enigmatic species of silkworms. The familiar and public archival material is no less genius than the use of sound, and not only because of the rain born from the chewing of those tiny beings.

The memory of the Résistance in the maquis of southern France. There: ‘Les Feuillets d’Hypnos’, a lyrical war diary by René Char, fragments, searching for the language in the landscape. An attempt at a translation.

A trip to South Korea, searching for memories from early childhood, spent there between the age of 1-3. Memories that barely exist. Layers of strangeness blend together: being a foreigner in the country and the strangeness vis-a-vis the past and the own biography. Wandering in the gaps, in between the noise and silences.