STST Film Club X Dream Sequence #4 | Memory in Motion

STST Film Club x Dream Sequence #4 | Memory in Motion

This programme presents experimental short films that probe the subject of memory.

How can film itself act as both witness and interpreter of what we recall? And how might the fragile materials and technologies of cinema mirror the fragility of memory itself?
Taken together, these films invite us to reflect on how memory is formed, lost, and reshaped, both on screen and in our own lives.

10 Megabytes of Memory

Markus Maicher, 2021, 2 mins

What is the meaning of "memory" in the digital age? For humans memory refers to subjective images of past events, for computers memory refers to an objective capacity to store information. The film compresses 10 human years in 10 megabytes of binary information and employs an aesthetics of the small file format, a counter strategy against the ever increasing resolution, bitrate and (environmental) costs of digital images.

Fovéa

Pierre-Manuel Lemarchand & Emmanuel Piton, 2014, 8' 54 mins

In the blink of an eye, a body confronts the memory of a place that may never have existed. Space wavers, and memory is perforated.

Strawberries in Summertime

Jennifer Reeves, 2013, 15' 52 mins

A 2.5-year-old boy revels in all things tiny and huge around a farm. His father shares his delight in climbing, animals and bugs. A mother observes with a camera and then departs into flowing fields and forest. A fleeting landscape glows with the delicate tensions between distance and intimacy and the wonders and pains of raising a young life. Black and white positive, negative and solarised images - toned in copper and blue - and a soundscape of nature, song and the boy’s budding voice, evoke the texture of memory.

Toyokoro

Maki Satake, 2000-2012, 13’40 mins

After her family moves away from their hometown of Toyokoro, the filmmaker uses footage from her archive of VHS tapes to examine and preserve the sites of cherished family memories. Returning to these sites, she records herself re-engaging with the places of her formative years.

Ever ø

Justin Brown, 2022, 5’58 mins

Fragments of joy flicker against a backdrop that does not belong to them. Faces and gestures dissolve into other landscapes, as if memory has been exposed twice. The film drifts between tenderness and intrusion, suggesting how fleeting moments of closeness are never free from the shadows pressing in and around them.

Mem_ry Fr_gm_nts

Pierce Warnecke, 2014, 7’46 mins

A memory is a recording of senses with the mind as the medium. When a memory is recalled it is played back in our heads, but never as exact as the originally experienced moment. This makes memory a volatile storage medium, subject to transience (degradation of memory with the passing of time), whereas digital audio/video recordings are theoretically immune to this decay caused by aging. ‘Memory Fragments’ explores recordings as memories by taking samples (sound, video, found objects) of a physical space and then placing them in an imaginary process of transience that slowly erodes the digital memories until disappearance.

Info:

Wednesday 24th September 2025

Doors - 7pm

Carriages 9.30pm

Tickets:

Tickets are free but donations are kindly appreciated. Any funds we receive enable us to run future events.

Film Club at Staffordshire St provides collectives, curators and audiences with a space to explore cinematic conversations, push the boundaries of experimental film and showcase archival heritage footage.

Dream Sequence | @dream_sequence_london | dreamsequencelondon@gmail.com

Dream Sequence is a London-based film screening event dedicated to exploring experimental and avant-garde filmmaking. Formed in 2024, Dream Sequence is committed to providing a platform for emerging filmmakers while also highlighting overlooked or underappreciated works.

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Accessibility: There is step-free access to the gallery via the door to the left hand side of the main entrance. There is a wheelchair accessible toilet. The event will be taking place in the exhibition space, which is a large open room with bright lighting and some seating available.

Staffordshire St is an independent project space in Peckham, South East London. The venue facilitates arts and cultural events and provides affordable studios for artists, makers and designers. ​

Staffordshire St is not-for-profit and all income is invested into developing our public programme which launched the summer of 2022. The venue was established as an art gallery in 2017, before then it was vacant for many years after a community centre closed. Originally it was built as a Methodist Hall. We intend to support a range of cultural events for the local community.

Staffordshire St will build on the established record of these histories, opening up again to the neighbourhood and developing a welcoming interdisciplinary arts space. More information on upcoming events at : info@staffordshirest.com or @staffordshirest

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