Where did the past go? Traces, archives, images.

For them, it is about beginning an exploration of this strange and fascinating world that is that of memory. Memory has a lot to do with history, naturally, but also, more profoundly, with writing and art in general. Barely experienced, every event sinks into the depths of the unknown past, on which float for a moment small fragments of memory. Yet an imprint remains, somewhere: a testimony, a recording of some kind, traces – vestiges in short, which remain buried among us. What can we do with these testimonies, human stories, material remains, images, archives? The archaeologist discovers it through excavations, construction sites, strata, pottery, debris, which reveal much more than the time that has passed; the historical filmmaker deals with archives, photos, amateur films, newspapers, documents. It is fascinating to see bridges, border zones, common grounds established between the two disciplines around this axis: how to rediscover the past? How does it survive? Did he really pass?