Old photographs in a family album come to life in a strange way. It is my eyes that look at me from their faces. I “slip” into my mother like into a piece of clothing, then into my father, my brother, my grandmother – one figure after another.
How does it feel to bring the dead back to life?
These are people with whom I was deeply connected – their stories continue to have an effect on me, I am their “descendant”. Who am I and what have they made of me? Does a part of them live on in me?
The Fitting is an experimental short film about memory, origin and identity – an attempt to get closer to one’s own roots physically and emotionally, image by image.
