The images come from my film Train-Trains 2. They are layered in time and space. They mix an old Egyptian black and white film, with footage I shot of the sea. They bear traces of the different formats and media they passed through over time: an archival film shot in 35mm, transferred onto Beta-Cam, the digitised in a DVD format, which I then ripped into a digital file along with the footage I shot on Video8, and then edited, superimposed, extracted and finally printed onto photo paper. I shot the film in 1999 and finished editing in 2017.

I remember John Berger:

a friend came to see me in a dream, from far away,
and I asked in the dream:
“- did you come by photograph or by train?” all photographs are a form of transport, and an expression of absence.