ARTWORK
Home Stories (2008) — Single-channel video projection (22 minutes, 30 seconds looped)
Description
My dad died in 1994; my mother in 2005. Each had a cache of unlabeled home movies. Like an archeologist, I reconstructed places and identities with my relatives. However, many clips remain unknown. A navy officer cradles an infant. People dance under a limbo pole at a new year’s party. This imagery has no referent.
Home Stories is an invitation to amateur storytellers to anchor this material. Supplemented by 8mm movies acquired from estate sales, I have created a 5-minute looped visual montage that moves across continents, into homes and on vacations. The final piece contains five stories, each with a different start point. They also contain music and sound effects from the public domain. The result is a fractured journey through imagination-space.
Images
Video
Home Stories (2008)
5 Stories, each is 5 minutes long
"Shawn"
This is the story of a grandson coming to terms with the degenerative illness of his grandmother through 4 different narrative voices.
Home Stories (2008)
5 Stories, each is 5 minutes long
"Nick"
A man learns from the "warrior of knowledge" the art of "far-seeing" which allows him to look into possible futures.
Home Stories (2008)
5 Stories, each is 5 minutes long
"Maria"
A woman tells us about the happy memories she has of dancing and traveling with her family.
Home Stories (2008)
5 Stories, each is 5 minutes long
"Joseph"
This is the story of an absent father reading a testimonial to a long-lost daughter. He tells her about the relatives on his side of the family.
Home Stories (2008)
5 Stories, each is 5 minutes long
"Bijou"
This is the story of a girl, mistaken for a boy, who is on the road to escape.