version 1 of broken photo is upon us! this is another one of my projects, in which i am part artist, part organizer. the idea is to create images, battered and bruised, through tactile means only– no digital allowed. scratches, multiple-exposures, warped film and its final presentation is what my two co-conspirators and our 12 handpicked artists are going for. though i, of course, am breaking my own rules in a sense. i hope for my final output to be an ephemeral representation of such tactile processes. that is, a super8 looped projection. which, naturally, ive never done before.
the original concept for my concentric trench super 8 film piece was for it to remain fully analog. surrounded by piles of crumpled, off-reel, hand-processed super8 film caused me to realize the enormity of the undertaking. sure, im made of magic, but what gives? i determined that i would lose the focus of the narrative (whatever it still may be) if i could not understand my own editing in a linear fashion– the way digital editing can offer. so i digitized all 12 reels and was able to build a mockup in final cut.
within broken photo lies an opportunity to present the analog version of this literally dragged-through-the-mud film. a small loop, a repetition. just as the process of digging a concentric trench actually is. i hope this wee gesture for broken photo will help me resolve this otherwise enormous concentric trench project… which has been on hold since 2009. returning every so often to resolving this piece is a bit like stumbling across the remainder of a cactus spur half-extracted.
toward resolution, then!
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broken photo’s inaugural exhibition will be on thursday sept 1, 2011 at living room gallery in chicago.
