I have hypothesised here that the filmic device is not a human invention, that it originates with one of the oldest living marine species, whose origin dates back 400 million years.

The story I'm telling plays with reality and fiction. In 1938, a museum keeper, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, discovered an unidentified fish off the east coast of Africa. It was the coelacanth, a species thought to have been extinct since the Denovian era.

An ichthyology laboratory discovered that the photosensitive scales of the fish recorded images. Read like film stock, superimposing them at 12 scales per second, they have made it possible to reconstruct the world's oldest movie.

In the installation, the object of the aquarium itself becomes a kind of optical theatre, a dialogue takes shape between the film format, the aquatic environment and the ghostly, shadow presence of the fish.