Eleventh International Conference on The Image

Abstract

Over the last decade, my research has been led by practice, film, and video installation production. I have used these methods to explore ways of revisioning memories to elicit personal remembering and storytelling in the viewer. Much of this research has concentrated on the role of found home movies with particular emphasis on the medium of Super 8 film. Such images, my research indicates, have lost much of the personal and emotive qualities that they once had, and by rescreening and reusing them, I hope to regain their emotional value. I aim to create a medium that will provide viewers with an auratic experience that engenders memory recall and sharing. The aura created, I argue, results from a combination of factors. It emanates mainly from the nature of the very personal and authentic subject matter of the home movies, rich with nostalgia. The impact is made more potent when imbued with the physical attributes present in the medium itself, Super 8 film. In this latest work, “Remixed Memories,” I am exploring the concept of remixing found footage from experimental Super 8 artists, Jasper Rigole, Derek Jarman, Peter Forgacs and anonymous home movies shot in the 1970s, to create a new work that offers a greater aura through this remixing.