CINEOS Premiere

Sans Soleil

A traveller's letters set to footage from Tokyo to Guinea-Bissau — an essay on memory, forgetting, and whether an image can hold a life once the moment is gone.

It never performs emotion; it constructs it at a remove, through a voice reading someone else's letters over images that arrive before their meaning. The pressure never gathers toward a release — it disperses into abstraction, into static, so what you carry out isn't grief exactly but a metaphysical vertigo, the specific unease of being shown that memory is always losing what it holds. It changes how you look at your own photographs for days.