Memories of an Unborn Sun
Director: Marcel Mrejen
Country: France, Algeria, Netherlands
Year: 2024
Length: 22'
Genre: documentary, experimental
Screenplay: Marcel Mrejen
Cinematography: Nader Chalhoub
Editing: Marcel Mrejen
Music: Ssaliva
Sound design: M'Hand Abadou Djezairi
Production company: FIEF Productions, Les Films Pelléas, Alpha Tango Productions
A metaphysical query into light as a form of memory, blending archives of French nuclear tests in the Sahara, viral footage of an artificial sun, and verses by Tuareg poet Hawad. As this nightless world embodies capitalism’s utopia of infinite growth, how do we remember those made invisible?