June 2008 Echoes of lives
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Growing up with a father who was found of filming his family with super 8 I was quite interested when I discovered my husband’s family’s films. Discovering movies not seen for more than 35 years, I realised how life is such a repetition. And this is how came to me the idea to mix images from different families : we do not know anymore which family it is and when it was : it could have been anyone wheneven. This is a very universal message about what we transmit to our children… We all try to reproduce something with our own children. I tried to do a film about how each life is the echo of another.
For this project I wanted to start from super 8 films. So one first issue was to digitize this material. I used a quite efficient but long process following the principles of the Internet site : http://homepage.mac.com/onsuper8/process.html.
I was inspired for this film by Emir Kursturica and how he used super 8 films. 
Indeed in many of his films there is at least a sequence of “film inside the film”, where a movie is being watched, or where a character imitates a famous role from another movie. For instance here in Arizona Dream.