"Aftersun" The summer of 11 years old, where the laughter disappeared into the sky

uncertain memory

"I feel like I remember a moment, but maybe I'm just remembering a photograph." (Charlotte Wells)*

Director Charlotte Wells talks about the "uncertainty of memory" in a conversation with Mia Hansen-Love. Just as Mia Hansen-Love's `` One Fine Morning '' (22) shaped her father's memory in the books he left behind, ``Aftersun'' is a collection of Polaroid photos and domestic violence tapes. , and the summer of his 11th year is shaped by the sounds of pop music. An uncertain memory that is slightly out of focus. The outline of the father is vaguely captured, as if to emphasize the presence of the ``adult man'' who is the closest person to the child but whose identity is unknown.

“Aftersun” © Turkish Riviera Run Club Limited, British Broadcasting Corporation, The British Film Institute & Tango 2022

Pop music provides a framework and space for our inexpressible emotions. There are some pieces of music that even if you don't understand them in real time, you realize how good they are later on. It felt like emotions I didn't understand were becoming three-dimensional before my eyes. The songs her father loved hide hidden secrets about Callum that she would never have noticed as a young girl. I may not be able to remember everything about that summer. However, it is possible to form feelings from what is left behind. Charlotte Wells distills the emotions of her 11-year-old summer through fragments of video and music. A small piece of memory that seems like it will be forgotten at any moment. These may be images that would be cut out in a typical movie. However, this is where the absolute novelty of this work lies. They show far more emotion than tell a story.

Memories are emotions stitched together by intangible "parts" and "parts". A Polaroid photograph not only expresses the emotions that emerge at the moment, but also the intersecting emotions that arise when looking back on it later. Real-time emotions gradually lose their contours, and the life the person has led is projected twice. It is quite understandable that Charlotte Wells describes this work as an ``emotional autobiography''. When Charlotte Wells flipped through her family album, she realized how young her father was, something she didn't realize at the time.

Ripple of laughter, singing voice