Lee A. Ritchie

Rapid montage of still images assembled from detritus dumped off my camera roll, collected over the past five to ten years. On completing the film, I subsequently experienced an inexplicable spontaneous bout of involuntarily selective amnesia, wherein I completely forgot my iPhone passcode and had to erase everything on it without a backup. Thus, these are some of the only images rescued.—Lee

Through the window. Silent.

Through a plastic bottle of cleaner on the windowsill. Ambient sound.

Through a glass of beer on the windowsill. Ambient sound.

Homage to Robert Breer’s 'Homage to Jean Tinguely’s Homage to New York.'

Through a plastic cup of iced coffee on the windowsill. Silent.

An experiment in activity, dedicated to Jean-Luc Godard and assembled in the immediate wake of his death on September 13, 2022. The only known footage of Marcel Proust is repeated through a sequence of digital abstractions and accompanied by the music of Gabriel Fauré, followed by video footage shot on iPhone 12 mini between North Carolina and New York City, 2021-2022.

After a poem by Emily Dickinson. A collage disaster film and experiment with various zones of materiality: ice, lava, land, sea, and sky. All found footage lifted from the internet.