Bookends

BookEnds is a collection of the start and ends of Super 8 reels of family footage, slowed down considerably. Usually, these parts of the reel were edited out, not deemed to be ‘of quality’, since they were necessarily exposed to light and acquired ‘punch holes’ during processing.

 In BookEnds the focus is on analogue amateur film as a material which, unlike digital media, gathers dust and debris, sports tears and holes and eventually, at the end of the reel, light obliterates all content.