We are all made of stars

A super 8mm film created for the One Take Super 8 event started by Alex Rogalski and held annually by Double Negative Collective in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Film portraits that capture a different state of mind.

The fixations and the consequences of our pursuit of instant communication and popular culture are exposed as a plotless panorama of our daily obsessions, desires and identities captures a sense of things slowly slipping out of control.

fracas ultimately is the experience of memory on many different levels. It utilizes the still image of children with minimal digital alteration. The photograph itself will always represent the past and therefore the memory of the person it captures. The audio is of the National Spelling Bee where children must exercise their skills and memory to correctly spell a word. Yet the images and sounds of fracas are intentionally not connected. It is only when the camera zooms out from the powerful gaze of smiling children and lets the viewer in, the intention of fracas is revealed

Through a series of meticulously crafted scenes, A Film Portrait... devises a disturbing presence-in-absence concept that compel a new gaze from the spectator. The clichés of the thriller film are exploited through a series of progressive tableaux as the experimental narrative recreates 12 scenes that hypothesize the disappearance of Zoe Dean Drum.