Memory Series thinks about the analog, the human, the subjective in relation to the digital, the objective and the algorithmic. What is the meaning of "memory" in the digital age? For humans memory refers to subjective images of past events, for computers memory refers to an objective capacity to store information.

The film compresses 10 human years in 10 megabytes, 1 megabyte and 1000 bits of binary information. The algorithm is working, memory is fading, images are becoming more and more abstract.

The series was compressed and edited almost entirely in the command-line with the open-source program ffmpeg, the original material was shot on Video8 tapes. Compression relates to an aesthetic of the small file format, a counter strategy against the ever increasing resolution, bitrate and (environmental) cost of digital images — and allows for the manipulation of the file itself, i.e. the material basis of images, analogous to experimenting with analog film material and its physical composition.

"Taking a trip down memory lane — in a three-part series, Markus Maicher compresses ten years of memories recorded on Video8 in different sized files: time-lapse images of everyday family life, dissolution into the abstract, in the end, complete loss of memory. A subversive triptych about memory stores and 'memory slips.'"
— Michele Koch, Diagonale