Essay film / still image video, 8:00 min, 2024
On Instagram I see accounts that archive footage of "Comfy rooms and safe, familiar places found online” also called “Dreamcore” or “Nostalgiacore”. I notice how the pictures from the accounts correspond more to how I remember my own childhood, than the photographs I try to take myself of the real places.
In the essay film “You're finally home” I go back and remember the places from my childhood, with mixed fictional pictures from the internet accounts and from a collective memory or by a so-called “third memory” (Bernard Stiegler) which is constructed from TV, cinema and internet. With the Instagram accounts as a starting point, the video ask questions about how we create, archive, and reproduce images of safety. The essay also reflects about our relationships to places, imaginary and real ones but also how we try to maintain security in the everyday and the connection to the transience of life.
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“You’re finally home” looks at virtual realities of social media and internet trends interconnecting with nostalgia, dreams and familiarity and introduces them through the lens of liminality.
In the essay “You’re finally home” familiar places of childhood are revisited and internet found material infiltrates a fragile and deeply personal point of view. They enter the world of digital collective memory constructed from TV, cinema and the internet, or “third memory” as described by Bernard Stiegler and internalize the eerie through this contradiction. Our relationships with places, imaginary or tangible, and how we manage to keep in touch and seek for security through them interact with an immaterial, cold aspect of adulthood. The permanence and the generic nature of digital material combined with the sense of transience and softness that nostalgia suggests, generate the liminality that describes the video as a whole.