Monday 28 February 2011

Work continues... Capturing passing time




-Cheryl Garner, Edited found footage, 2011 [Short clips, original edits played on loops]

Having problems uploading the second sequence... The idea being to have two of the same sequences but edited at different speeds playing alongside each other on loops -- sound from original footage.

-The contrast between “then” and “now” with home movies of the past has been changed by passing time.

-Looking back to the past through an altered perspective, informed by the possibilities of the present.

-Everyday reality – unexpected ways of seeing old home movies – the unexpected encounters that emerge.

-Stillness may evoke a "before" for the moving image, movement and stillness touches on this point of uncertainty so that, buried in the home movie’s materiality, lies a reminder of the difficulty of understanding passing time.

-The residual trace of stillness, or the hint of stillness within movement, survives, sometimes enhancing, sometimes threatening.