Good-bye
Lisa Martin
2015 - 10 min - Mini DV - Couleur - États-Unis

Why fix your lens on a place that is disappearing before your eyes? What still exists between lovers who haven’t seen one another in over 20 years? What if the memories you held most dear were proven to change each time you recalled them?
Good-bye interweaves three distinct, yet related, memories: the slow desolation of wintertime Astroland (Coney Island) losing its battle with developers; a furtive letter between lovers as a woman pauses in her long journey, desperately trying to fix her heels in the shifting sands of time; and scientific theories of memory itself that reveal the ways we manipulate it for personal storytelling.
All three studies eventually merge and transcend the pain of loss to illuminate the profound feeling that gives memory its enduring power.