Short film
Memento Mori
2005 · 15 min
A slow, unsettling drift through stark black-and-white images that feel like photographs come uneasily to life.
- Directed by
- Saskia Vredeveld
- Overview
- Viewed from the world of Roger Ballen. Ballen is renowned for his confronting and bleak black and white portraits of marginalised South Africans. Melle van Essen follows in Ballen’s footsteps by creating 'Living' photographs with fixed frames and strong black and white contrasts with great emphasis on composition.
- How it feels
- Bleak, eerie, melancholic and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Isolation, art, politics, identity
- Content
- Mild violence and gore. No sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Saskia Vredeveld