Each film, every project, all explorations leave traces behind. They take the form of props, possibilities, writings, excesses, renunciations, tools, equipment.
Here is where what we create when a project begins is allowed to settle, as well as the possibilities a project offers us to build interaction, relationship, depth. Postcards we send from places of passage, objects that help construct meaning, photographs we take for ourselves and those we make to narrate the process. And then clothes, newspapers, dreams, mistakes.
Here we offer all of this, including time spent with us while we work, to let you feel both the joy and the fatigue, and to give you the chance to help us produce beauty, truth, and disquiet. What we offer, in the end, is our passage through the world, and the way it took place.
And then there are the sweatshirts, hats, T-shirts, and posters, which at times are simply a way of telling ourselves that we made it. And then the frames from each film. Because, as Godard said, “cinema is 24 photographs per second,” and we add all the necessary ones to tell a story. To bear witness that we had a gaze—one that touched everyone, everything.
This is not merchandise. These are derivatives—or, at times, origins.