"MEMORIES OF AN UNBORN SUN" | Rencontres Internationales

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Part of the 'Contemporary Intersects' screening programme of the Rencontres Internationales filmfestival held at Loods6 from december 13 - 15.

Marcel Mrejen: Memories of an Unborn Sun | Video installation | 4k | colour | 0:22:00 | France, Algeria | 2024

Memories of an Unborn Sun is an audiovisual installation in which documentary facts overlap with fiction, reflecting on the geopolitical impact of the extractive forces that transform our world. Based on rumours, fake news, and viral tweets, this narrative puzzle questions how algorithmically fed information is shaping our memory.

The climate crisis is affecting particularly Northern Africa in dire and far-reaching ways, amplifying long-standing problems, and sharpening socio-economic inequalities. One Big Economy of the Sun aims to articulate a metaphysical query around light as a form of memory. Illuminated by an artificial sun, this nightless world embodies the illusion of infinite growth. How to remember those made invisible? Exiled workers and ghosts of an energy quest.