In this documentary exploration, I call on three singular perspectives to decipher the enigma of my unknown and mysterious grandfather: a medium, his son and artificial intelligence. This unusual triangulation illustrates how each individual, with their different tools and sensitivity, can be the archaeologist of their family memory.
Looking at a collection of archival photographs, these three radically different approaches create a fragmented portrait, between documentary reality and fantasy. The medium scrutinises invisible energies and traces, seeking to establish a dialogue with the beyond. My father, looking at the same images, is confronted to a past he chose to forget, where each photograph reflects a memory he has tried to avoid. Artificial intelligence, for its part, analyses coldly all the listed details, patterns and emotions, offering a reading devoid of emotional bias but no less revealing.
This video questions not only the way in which we construct family
memories, but also how each of us, in their own way, becomes the guardian and interpreter of a part of our collective history. This project invites us to reflect on the way we give life to the traces left by our predecessors, through algorithms, blood links and extrasensory perceptions. Photographs, although frozen in time, become portals to different dimensions of reality. Each interpretation opens up a new perspective, creating a fresco where the rational and the irrational coexist, where past present intertwine in a fascinating dance. Images are no longer mere historical traces, but catalysts for emotions, memories and projection.
This exploration along the frontiers of reality, where each glimpse of these photographic archives reveals as much about the observer as about the subject being observed, creates an unexpected dialogue between past and present, between science and mystery. It raises questions about our relationship with memory, our family heritage, and the way in which the narratives we create around images on a daily basis shape our understanding of the world and ourselves.
– Excerept from the House of European History « Presence of the Past » catalog
