Incomplete Lives, Lost Memories
Events
Neither images nor memories refuse to disappear. At this pre-conference event, we’ll be screening two recent documentary films that instantiate the theme driving the conference in the days to follow. Both films are constructed from archival materials, engaging with deeply personal biographies while addressing complex questions of race and queerness, family and home.
- Lloyd Wong, Unfinished (Kanada 2025, French with English subtitles | Regie, Produktion, Buch: Lesley Loksi Chan | 29 min)
- La photo retrouvée (Frankreich 2024, English with English subtitles | Regie, Buch: Pierre Primetens | 76 min)
Lloyd Wong, Unfinished reflects on an incomplete project by video artist Lloyd Wong, a Chinese-Canadian gay man whose experiences of living with AIDS in the 1990s were both central to his project and, ultimately, the cause of its incompleteness. In La photo retrouvée, director Pierre Primetens grapples with his childhood memories spanning France and Portugal, retelling a family history marked by the erasure of the mother. With almost all family pictures vanished or destroyed, the film turns to home movies and amateur footage from others to reach the emotional core of those lost memories.
As part of the conference
MOVING IMAGE REMAINS: ON THE REFUSAL TO DISAPPEAR
Further information about the conference from January 29–31, 2026 at Goethe-University Frankfurt can be found here
Registration until 14 January 2026 via ticket link. After January 14, tickets can be booked through our reservation system. More information to follow.
The event is hosted by the DFG Research Training Group 2279 "Configurations of Film" in collaboration with naxos.Kino and Produktionshaus NAXOS.