The Portraits in US.

16mm Experimental Film | 2025

The Portraits in Us is a 16mm experimental film that explores memory as an emotional archive—how lived experiences become embedded within the body and resurface through images, sensations, and feelings. The work considers memory not as a fixed record, but as something layered, overlapping, and shared.

Created using analog film processes, the project employs portraiture, double exposure, and hand-processed imagery to reflect the instability of remembrance. Faces, gestures, and moments bleed into one another, mirroring the way personal histories coexist and connect across time.

While the film was produced during the Mothlight 16mm Workshop, the project was independently conceived and developed as a personal inquiry. The slow, tactile nature of shooting and processing film became a method for engaging with memory with care—allowing unpredictability, material traces, and emotional residues to remain visible within the image.

The Portraits in Us positions the film frame as a shared site of remembering, where individual experiences intersect to form a collective emotional record.