XU Extract (4 generations)
VHS to DV to Super 8mm to DV ; subtle sound; 3:00
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An extraction and embellishment of my favorite visuals from the movie Xanadu created as an exorcism of nostalgia.
I wanted to create a wish or hope that somehow I would be able to make the distinction between memories that I erroneously saw as rosy and memories that were legitimately rosy. I took a favorite childhood movie, Xanadu, and extracted my favorite visual seconds and wrung them out, so to speak, by creating 4 generations of the excerpts going from tv screen to digital video to computer screen to Super 8 and back to digital video. I see this as a piece that can continuously be updated with multiple versions. I can create as many generations as long as moving image formats are alive, barely staying alive and/or new ones are born. Each new generation has a small part of the first generation.
An extraction and embellishment of my favorite visuals from the movie Xanadu created as an exorcism of nostalgia.
I wanted to create a wish or hope that somehow I would be able to make the distinction between memories that I erroneously saw as rosy and memories that were legitimately rosy. I took a favorite childhood movie, Xanadu, and extracted my favorite visual seconds and wrung them out, so to speak, by creating 4 generations of the excerpts going from tv screen to digital video to computer screen to Super 8 and back to digital video. I see this as a piece that can continuously be updated with multiple versions. I can create as many generations as long as moving image formats are alive, barely staying alive and/or new ones are born. Each new generation has a small part of the first generation.
