Thomas Sauvin Trailers

History of Memory Trailer (2019)

01 October 2019

One photograph changed their lives. Forever.

Hand Colored no.2 Trailer (2017)

12 June 2017

In 2013, Lei Lei and Thomas Sauvin collected numbers of black-and-white photos from Chinese flea markets and imagined that all of them belonged to one fictional Chinese person.

Beijing Silvermine Trailer (2012)

07 March 2012

A documentary about the French collector and artist Thomas Sauvin, who since 2009 has salvaged discarded negatives from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing, negatives that were destined to destruction.

Chine, une histoire intime Trailer (2022)

01 January 2022

Recycled Trailer (2013)

10 June 2013

An exhaustively created moving image mural of Beijing and her inhabitants, painstakingly extracted from an archive of half a million 35mm negatives.