Recollective..... explores the relationship between history and fiction through the visual dialogue of their representation. In particular, the piece weaves together two early archives in the history of cinema: King Rama V’s Visit To Europe (1897) and Georges Méliès’s A Trip To The Moon (1902). By projecting scattered pieces of both films, the piece dismantles traditional cinematic presentation, proposing instead a cinematic situation where revisiting the archive becomes an open montage. In such a situation where the unified presentation of the cinema fractures, the act of recollecting reveals the potential for minor storytellers to reclaim narratives from history itself.
