Persistence & Loss
An experimental work about film, memory, and deforestation. Incorporating found footage from sponsored and educational films, "Persistence and Loss" examines the traces of presence and absence in cinema, the archive, and on the landscape itself.
“Now you see them, now you don’t: down go the ancient Douglas Firs in these Canadian forests – as quickly as the images of them flash before your eyes. These strobing historical images accompany archival audio, juxtaposing the modern industries of logging and early cinema. It’s deforestation modernising accompanied with the primitive magic of the movie camera: a trick of the light in plain sight.”
Screenings
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Official Selection), February 1 & 3, 2025
Festival of (in)Appropriation (touring festival)
Los Angeles Film Forum, October 2, 2022 (theatrical premiere)
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, October 19, 2022
Le Grand Action Cinema, Paris, June 1, 2023
Antimatter [media art] Festival, Victoria, BC, October 29, 2022
Small File Media Festival, Vancouver BC, August 10-20, 2021 (online premiere)