Silent Hero - No one is Forgotten
“Remembering is a reconstruction in which the fragmented past and projected future are brought into the present.” - Yuk Hui
(L. Rosenberg Excerpt contact for full version)
22 min
Cathode TV monitor
In this short film my role shifts from photographer, critic of technological developments and grandson of a war hero to a griot of sorts, contributing to the preservation of memory through documenting encounters with the group of last remaining WWII Red Army veterans that are currently living in Brooklyn, New York.
To close the historical loop of remembering, I collected war accounts and showed my synthetic images of war generated by a GAN to the veterans. I Informed them of existence of such a technology and the nature of the generated images.
Exploring the process of generating new readings by altering existing technological codes and then taking these images back into the past by way of introducing them to the subjects of the original photographs, has created a prompt for reimagining a future past with more than just the one inevitable and ultimate outcome of historical catastrophe.
On display at FOAM Museum group exhibition “Missing Mirror”, Amsterdam, NL
