The work conjures a fragile cinema of memory and imagines what happens when a society with poorly managed archives seeks to rediscover itself and finds only borrowed faces, speaking from a foreign, suspended time.

It is rendered fictionally in the shape of a digital terminal for accessing an archive of recollections, remembrances, and recordings accumulated across the years. The lax concern for archive stewardship, the once-in-a-blue-moon updates, and the general indifference of its custodians have led the artificial intelligence entity, tasked with indexing and reproducing its content, to hallucinate, freely associating fragments and recollections separated by vast temporal distances. When it cannot match a voice to a face, it offers the user a borrowed one.

*For creating these micro-narratives, we relied on interviews conducted between April and May (2025), with individuals who responded to our call. We are deeply grateful to all who made themselves available to share their experiences. Without their contribution, this work would not have been possible.

Concept and execution: Alexandru Claudiu Maxim, visual artist

Structure and interview coordination: Magda Cernea, psychologist / dramatherapist

Dramaturgy: Daniel Oltean, Oana Hodade

Direction: Alice Oșlobanu

Voice / facial expressions: Otilia Panainte, Filip Popescu, Vero Nica, Lucian Pavel

Sound design: Ana Teodora Popa

Sound design jr.: Maria Bianca