2016 / 18 min / Digital and film archive / Switzerland

Synopsis:
After moving to Switzerland and living in an empty room, a film student sets out to rebuild a collection of punk records he once owned as a teenager. This quest leads him to contact two retired film collectors, his mother, and his grandmother, who has Alzheimer’s. Can objects tell the story of our lives? And how can this act help us work through memory?


The film was screened at:

2016
Cinema Capitole (Switzerland)

2017
Festival de cine de Trujillo (Peru)
among others...

2025
Casa do Comum - Retrospectiva (Portugal)


*This film was created in collaboration with the Swiss Cinematheque.

 

 

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