Introduction

Though the stories told through the film and its surrounding archive and material appear to reflect a geographically and culturally specific history, it is actually an example of what Koyo Kouoh describes as the micro-story within the macro-story of the colonial project and its legacies of forced migration and displaced bodies. Through this work we experience generational memory, bound to place and time through individual bodies, while simultaneously hearing the echoes of these memories and histories as they form connections beyond the framing of spaces, geographies and borders that have been delineated by the legacies of colonial empires.

The installation itself surrounded the viewer with simultaneous yet different perspectives moving forward in time. In its embrace, we experienced fragments of this installation rather than a whole. We had access to a meaning, a feeling. Not a story, but a memory, and sometimes, a memory of something that has never been seen.