This paper takes the films of Marceline Loridan, Victor Erice and Esther Hoffenberg from around 2003 to think of the archive as providing with its found footage the necessary third term for the putting into words of a buried memory or, on the contrary, like a screen memory which allows images to disappear as lost footage and thus new representations to appear. The works chosen make visible a voice that remembers itself, this voice reconfigures the unbridgeable gap (and the to and fro) between past and present; it provides an access to the time of loss and the poetics of history.