Unreliable Sequence

Series Statement

Unreliable Sequence is a body of work constructed from disassembled 16 mm film. Each piece begins with a fragment of a classical painting, isolated and reconstructed frame by frame using cut film strips.

The works examine how memory operates. We do not retain events as continuous narratives. We remember in fragments. Certain images remain sharp, others dissolve. Some details shift position over time.

From a distance, the image appears cohesive. Up close, it breaks into individual frames, revealing its instability. The work exists between wholeness and collapse.

This series explores that tension between what was seen and what is later remembered.

Why Film

The material itself carries time. Each frame once belonged to a moving sequence. By cutting and reassembling it, the original narrative is interrupted and reorganised.

Film becomes both image and archive. It holds fragments of other stories while forming a new one.

Every frame belonged to another story before this one.

Process

Each work begins with a selected body fragment from a historical painting. The image is reduced, abstracted, and translated into tonal blocks. Hundreds of 16 mm frames are cut and aligned vertically to reconstruct the fragment.

Missing frames, inconsistencies and tonal shifts remain visible. These interruptions are intentional.