Could a memory still exist if there was no one to remember it?

“the first memory with you” is made with a mysterious set of Polaroids my mother took in Dallas, Texas, in 1987, the year before I was born. The story behind these photographs has long since been forgotten.

The film examines different phases of remembering. The Polaroids collide with the shadow of a hand and the optical path of a Polaroid SX-70 camera to explore memory from multiple perspectives: the womb, the viewfinder, a mother’s touch, the soundscape within and outside the frames, and the flow of time.

Hands serve as instruments to capture stories and physically connect individuals to a time and place. The two hands in the film, the mother’s and the daughter’s, bridge the past and present, evoking both physical and inherent memory.