memento mori
memento mori is a layered exploration of the total photographs captured over the course of a lifetime – over 100,000 in total. This personal archive, the dizzying documentation of a life, represents a plurality of subjec
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memento mori is a layered exploration of the total photographs captured over the course of a lifetime – over 100,000 in total. This personal archive, the dizzying documentation of a life, represents a plurality of subjec
Do you know the legend of the Valley Witch?
A study of light and shadows, framing and composition with no clear narrative. A visual essay on silence and the passing of time.
At the end of civilization, every aspect of reality and human experience is left in the hands of man. The implications of this fact inevitably lead to reflection on fundamental questions: the definition of the identity o
After losing someone, Marcos challenges Death itself to a duel of ideas and games, as they fulfill the natural game that the universe designed for them.
A stop-motion meditation on the inevitability of death, dedicated in loving memory to Gravy, the Nebelung gremlin kitty.
Two young men find more about one another while watching the sunset together.
This experimental film combines collage technique and stop-motion animation to deliver a critical assessment of the environmental crisis fueled by growing consumer culture. By deploying imagery associated at the time wit
Remember you must die.
In 1959, a group of intellectual “Rightists” from colleges and universities in Shenyang, and criminals from prisons, arrived in the desolate area of western Liaoning Province. They wanted to build a railway here for a mi
A man haunted seeks inspiration for his first painting.
Behind-the-scenes production on the 1999 South Korean drama-horror 'Memento Mori.'
Charismatic Hans Petter has incurable cancer and little time left. Now he is keen to use the weeks and months that remain as best as possible. He does everything to ensure that his wife Eva is well when he is away. But i
A short film about souvenir.
A nun without a heart, a dissected unknown person, a murdered tailor. Workers are renovating the Dominican Church's walls when the wall collapses. Through the gaping hole, an ancient staircase leads to a chamber of secre
After London Eyes Tour, comedian Rui Sinel de Cordes is back on stage with his seventh solo stand-up comedy show. It is called Memento Mori and, although the title refers to death, this is a show about life and what we m
Memento Mori. Remember that you must die. The time-honoured Latin expression became the starting point for a highly introspective performance. Cherkaoui analyses a sense of boredom that imbues our daily lives, the fleeti
This film is a sequence of 3,684 separate Cyanotype Sunprints, developed using a photographic process invented in 1847. The poem was written by GPT-2, a state of the art A.I. writing engine. It is presented verbatim, edi
Memento Mori is a morbidly beautiful journey into the world of alternative post mortem arrangements and an illuminating meditation on death, dying and our relationship with our bodies once they are no longer ours.