A first attempt at reimagining Bonjour Tristesse resulted in a 4 minute film focused on the stages of memory that she went through, attempting to create cinematically, a sense of the three abstract notions of memory/self alluded to by Natalie Morello in her study guide.
These essentially positioned Cecile as the present, the past and the present in the present. Interpreting these visually, I assigned a monochrome palette to the still images of Meditarraenan beaches, slowly coming into colour as ‘Cecile’ recalls a memory, that then evolves into an abstracted image that makes less sense as ‘Cecile’ has gone deep into her subconscious. The sound was designed to accompany her into this journey.