Je me souviens

Je me souviens is a single-channel video installation developed over seven months with five Colombian political refugees living in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

Inspired by Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition, each participant used a video camera to explore three spheres of interaction in their daily lives: love, rights, and solidarity. These recordings are connected to audiovisual portraits of Sherbrooke and Colombian cities through dreamy images, soundscapes, and echoes of a mixed past-present reality.

No prepared interviews are presented. Instead, the voices of the five participants, together with different soundscapes, form the voice of the film.

A video-editing algorithm developed for the project mixes images and sounds in real time, presenting a new version of the work at each projection. This technique of eternal editing builds a film without fixed duration, beginning, or end, speaking of exile as a continuous déjà vu where memories, presents, and futures are mixed.