BLUE EDIT

BLUE EDIT

Digital, color, sound, 15 min
A cinematic reflection focused on the quotidian, with unexpected sound/image juxtapositions and bristling space/time vortices made cognizant through editing.  The film was begun in a "blue" ...

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A cinematic reflection focused on the quotidian, with unexpected sound/image juxtapositions and bristling space/time vortices made cognizant through editing.  The film was begun in a "blue" moment a year ago, returned to during the Covid19 pandemic and lockdown in New York City. It's pace, melancholy, and concentration on the everyday, rather than the grandiose, seem particularly suited to this moment in history. As well it returns again and again to themes of mortality and goodbye. The result is allusive and idiosyncratic, exhibiting cross-national globalism within and through the adjacencies of form and content.  

Shot with iphone 6 and 8. Filmed and edited by Abigail Child.

Films

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    Ornamentals
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    Prefaces Is This What You Were Born For? (Part 1)
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    Mercy Is This What You Were Born For? (Part 7)
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