Excerpt from Dedications I-V

Dedications I-V is a short film by Chloé Desaulles composed of individual tales on memory as told by people with progressive memory loss. The short is based on neuroscience research, suggesting that memories can be made more resistant to degenerative disorders through the use of active recall. Through this method, the film is meant to act as a visual document of the protagonists’ memories, as well as a tool to strengthen them. This short was made using depth data with depthkit, the kinectv2 and unity, taking advantage of the medium’s loss of frames and visual inaccuracy to contribute to an already fading narrative. According to Scatter co-founder James George, it is also the longest film ever created using Depthkit. Original score by Alexander Panos.

Chloé Desaulles: Excerpt from Dedications I-V from STUDIO for Creative Inquiry on Vimeo.

This project supported in part by microgrant #2019-009 from the Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art @ the Frontier.