La Parisienne
Paris
France
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INTERIOR DESIGN: Hoang Nguyen
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Lucien Bolliger
CG VISUALISER: Hoang Nguyen
COMPOSER: Artem Litovchenko
CELLO, PIANO: Artem Litovchenko
VOICEOVER: Julien Olivier
WORDS: Based on Liberté by Paul Éluard
SOUND ENGINEER: Hugo Françon
Reflection (Fading Memories) is a short film that explores memory through architecture.
Beginning in the present, the camera drifts slowly through a familiar apartment as time moves ever forward. Midway through the film, its direction reverses. Objects, movement and moments begin to rewind, carrying us deeper into recollections that become increasingly distant and fragmented.
The film is accompanied by an original score by Artem Litovchenko and an adaptation of a poem by Paul Éluard. Together, they tell the story of an elderly man recalling the countless everyday moments and familiar objects that continue to remind him of his late wife. His home becomes a vessel for remembrance, where ordinary places—a kitchen, a window, a fireplace—carry echoes of love, family and the passage of time.
The film uses the movement of the camera itself as a narrative device. Its forward motion reflects the relentless passage of time before gradually reversing, guiding us backwards through increasingly intimate recollections until the journey resolves into a single photograph—a fleeting moment preserved while everything else slowly fades.