memory trace trailer

memory is not to remember 1,21′ Film Manipulation, Digitization, Editing: Soffia Loukeri Music: Soffia Loukeri Gregory Zervakos Original Film Material: unknown 35mm film Special Thanks: Giorgos Efthimiou, VarverQ Εxperimental /Found footage film 2025 Description A 35mm film found at the “eleonas” flea market—already half-deteriorated. Its color fading was embraced as a generative element, shaping a distinct aesthetic form: something reminiscent of memories lost in the depths of time. Process Notes An impulse led me to buy a 35 mm film reel from the Elaionas flea market. When I bought it, I didn’t know exactly what it was. Time had already left its own artistic imprint on it. I took a piece and worked on it with solvent, giving priority to the aesthetic form. I used a brush on it as if it were paint. I let the material itself guide me. During the digitization, I used a light with a slight violet tint to enrich the blues and then made sure to remove it from the whites and pale yello