Essay film
Still Image video, 8:00 min, 2024
"You’re finally home” explores the intersection of social media and internet trends, nostalgia and dream core through the lens of liminality.
The video revisits familiar childhood places, blending personal memories with found digital material to engage with a collective digital memory shaped by television, cinema, and the internet. Drawing on Bernard Stiegler’s concept of “third memory,” the work reflects on how mediated images and narratives shape our understanding of real places, and on a sense of longing—both a desire to return and a desire for something imagined. The work examines how images of safety and belonging are created and maintained as a way of seeking security and control in.