'Memory Strains' is a video from the viewpoint of the elevators of Eiffel Tower. The elevators are the vessels that have carried people up and down the tower's living body for over a century, and the operators are their guardians. The elevator operators have heard snatches of millions of lives in numerous languages for over a hundred years. 'Memory Strains' pays homage to these lives with sounds and images that flicker by creating a vertical flow of motion.