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The Day Rises is a reconstruction of Lene Berg’s memory of her father’s arrest in Paris in the mid-1970s. Some details are unclear, such as the colour of the car in which he was found by the police. What is certain is that beside her father in the little car is also her dead stepmother. The event is staged in a model while Berg’s voiceover describes her recollection process as she weaves together various fragments, including the ones she in reality cannot remember: I was not there. I remember it clearly.
The Day Rises deals with the ways we construct memories to make sense of the incomprehensible, but also the fragile qualities of memories, and their power. The film’s title quotes the French phrase “le jour se lève”which is also the title of a famous French melodrama with Jean Gabin (directed by Marcel Carné, 1939), considered one of the principal examples of poetic realism.
The Day Rises was first shown as part of Lene Berg's Festival Exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall 2022.