This is an old film project, do you still use analog cameras?
Since we entered the digital era, we quickly started working with new cameras and experimenting with post-production. So this project actually represents the first decade of ‘memymom’ which was completely analog. We just softly evolved along with the technology.
Something we can’t forget from our ‘analog’ days was developing the film rolls in a supermarket near our house. The excitement that grew whilst waiting for a week or so to see the result of our shoots, what a thrill…
You are an unusual team, mother and daughter, do you love each other?
A rhetorical question in our case. We often hear people acting weirdly or surprised when they figure out we’re not only mother/daughter but also colleagues, they always say: “I love my mother, but working with her, that’s a whole different thing”.
While for us it’s one of the easiest thing to do. We trust each other, we both know in which direction we’re going. There’s a beautiful ‘clash’ between two different personalities that get along just fine.
The thing is, that we are work alone, doing all ourselves (styling, photography, light, scenery, models, post-production) and this intimate and stubborn way creates our images. It’s a specific personal atmosphere that we both love and that we are not willing to change.
What about future projects?
A series still in progress called ‘Whodunnit’ (a never-ending Modern greek tragedy where I play all the characters), that also indirectly emphasises our ‘collaboration’ of the past. Then we have ‘Nunsense’, another series that reminds of some atmospheres of the ‘hangover from the past’, with the imaginary life of two cloistered nuns (with photographer Julie Scheurweghs and dancer Sabine Molenaar in the role of the ‘nuns’) of which we recently released a preview online but it’s still a work in progress.
So much more actually… maybe also a book of ‘The analog archives’ and afterwards ‘The Digital Decade’ by memymom?
