Screen Memories
(Nico Sharma, 2025)
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
The medium of films can exploit the existence of Time and Space within the mind. There is a looping stereo track switching from left to right throughout the film. This replicates the psychotherapy EMDR that allows the brain to better access memories, especially ones that are suppressed. My film uses this to simulate memories, especially "screen memories" as explained by Freud. Freud gives insight into memories, stating that trivial or abstract memories (screen memories) can often be brought to consciousness to represent deeper, suppressed and emotionally charged memories. They hold great significance for each individual, acting as symbols in construction of the mythology of a person and their life, images of the self in the past, and even goals, purposes, desires of the future. They are the fibres through which subjectivity is weaved together.This film was produced as part of the Experimental Production module.
SYNOPSIS
A video of candles burning and flickering is overlayed on top of the changing visuals. Merging with the images, sometimes appearing to be focal and sometimes forgotten in the videos. The candles themselves aid the hypnotic or therapeutic quality of the film, while also making metaphorical reference to the neural pathways that store memories and how they fade over time without realisation by the rememberer. Images and scenes portrayed in the film feel like being on the fringe of a past memory, or a memory you've almost had, creating familiar yet surreal atmospheres that conceal hidden narratives within them.CREW
Nico Sharma
Director
Director