Broken Cinema Dreams, 2025

Photomontage Series

This series explores the tension between cinematic memory and photography as a medium. It began with an exploration of abstraction in photography, experimenting with materials such as cellophane under colored light to create dynamic, vibrant compositions.

Inspired by my deep love for cinema, I became intrigued by the idea of integrating these abstract images with figurative elements from classic films. To achieve this, I projected and re-photographed frames from films primarily from the 1920s to the 1940s, casting them onto a large curved surface. The distortion of the projections reshaped the original imagery, altering its proportions and visual language. These re-photographed frames were then digitally layered with the earlier abstract compositions, allowing the two visual worlds to merge.

Through photomontage techniques, Broken Cinema Dreams deconstructs and reassembles cinematic history, questioning how visual memories transform over time. Once-recognizable film scenes dissolve into layers of color, light, and form, distancing them from their original narrative. This fragmentation reflects the way collective visual memories shift and evolve within personal perception. In this series, photography, cinema, and collage converge, breaking apart and reconfiguring moments from film history into a newly imagined visual space.

Folded metallic foil in orange, yellow, green and purple over a pale rounded form, with a small dark standing figure at the lower center. — Broken Cinema Dream IArchival pigment print (photomontage)

A large blue-green rounded form with orange and red patches at the left and a pink and purple crease at the lower center. — Broken Cinema Dream IIArchival pigment print (photomontage)

A pale sculpted head turned to the left inside a clear round bowl, with a hand at the bottom, among crinkled pink, green and blue foil and a ribbed pattern at the upper right. — Broken Cinema Dream IIIArchival pigment print (photomontage)

Translucent purple and green foil over a pale, mask-like face. — Broken Cinema Dream IVArchival pigment print (photomontage)

Purple, green and teal foil with pale curved bands across the lower half and a pale face fragment at the right edge. — Broken Cinema Dream VArchival pigment print (photomontage)

A pale face lying on its side at the left among red foil, with a gray round textured form at the right. — Broken Cinema Dream VIArchival pigment print (photomontage)

A pale face with a hand pressed against it at the left, under teal and navy foil with orange and pink patches. — Broken Cinema Dream VIIArchival pigment print (photomontage)

Green and teal foil with a pale curved bowl shape and a dark hand-like shape at the left, and a dark spotted form at the right. — Broken Cinema Dream VIIIArchival pigment print (photomontage)

Green, blue and silver foil with a pale face partly visible at the lower left. — Broken Cinema Dream IXArchival pigment print (photomontage)

A black and white checkerboard pattern above a pale face and hand, in pink and purple. — Broken Cinema Dream XArchival pigment print (photomontage)

Red crumpled foil at the right and a blue and turquoise form at the left, with a pale face barely visible at center left. — Broken Cinema Dream XIArchival pigment print (photomontage)

A dark standing figure at the upper right above green, pink and blue foil, with a pale face at the lower left. — Broken Cinema Dream XIIArchival pigment print (photomontage)