Originally published in Found Footage Magazine Issue #7 March 2021.
The article analyses the short film “Personne” by German filmmakers Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller. It discusses about a man, alone, depressed, thinking and waiting; credits of the film include 144 films, made between 1943 and 2014, American and European; the archive of narrative cinema for a fragmented, image of a creature on the verge of extinction; and use of inserts in short archive based film as raising from the realm of Necessity to that of Freedom.