Direction, Camera & Edit: Michaela Lakova
Voiceover: Patricia Chaves
Text Extracts: Erasure, Audrey Samson
Sound: free sound banks
I still have a visual and acoustic memory of experiences
that I can not explain. Sentences and languages I do
not know have remained in my memory...etched like
a magnetic tape... memories which I can not forget or
erase.
—Michaela Lakova, A manuscript of erasure
A manuscript of erasure is an immersive video which
explores themes of memory, absence and presence;
what’s is forgotten and/or remembered oscillating
between city landscapes and a desert located in the
Middle East. The video depicts a larger question of
how history operates and its complex apparatus of
being erased and then reinvented again.
My interest in the subject of erasure was originally
inspired by my desire to gain agency within the un-
spoken act of erasure; erasure of people, places and
histories. The video is a symbolic attempt to navigate
and understand those inscription processes.
