Recomposing Fragments.

Montage and Memory in Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun

Abstract

This article seeks to examine the role of montage in Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun (2022) in relation to the film’s need to reconstruct a visual recollection of memory. A comparison with Proust’s mémoire involontaire and its benjaminian reinterpretation will demonstrate the capacity of montage to transcend its conventional narrative function (to link the constituent elements of a narrative together as to restore its continuity) and to fully harness the potential for establishing temporal connections between images.