Magda Ellstern

Memories of Vertigo

I've forgotten the story of this movie. I've forgotten why James Stewart is chasing this woman. I don't know why he's so obsessed with making her look exactly like a dead woman.

But we remember Madeleine's hair. We remember the Golden Gate Bridge. We remember that strange scene in front of the trunk of a thousand-year-old tree.

It seems to me that these memories look like this in my mind.

They aren't exact copies but rather approximate images that live in their differences from their original matrix.

Fragments of the Latent Space Series

This project offers a visual exploration of latent space through point clouds extracted from imaginary scenes.

By navigating this space, I capture fragments, figures, moments that seem to come from a forgotten film, a collective memory, or an unwritten story.

The aim is not to reconstruct reality, nor to produce finished images, but to record what surfaces: partial, unstable forms, like so many sketches of possible worlds.

These portraits, scenes, or silhouettes never existed, but carry familiar clues within them.

They inhabit this blurred zone between memory, fiction, and desire.