Mechanical/Animal Memory
Black and White, Sound, 16mm Film, 6 minutes, 2005
An experimental film created as a part of the National Film Board of Canada Edgegode Experimental Film Initiative. Five West Coast filmmakers were chosen to create five minute experimental films exploring the notion of the "classic" medium of film.
"Mechanical/Animal Memory" was made by cutting up the answer print of "Mechanimal Source Film" and contact printing it with a flashlight in the darkroom in order to alter the sound before reassembling it to make a new print. The NFB write up for this film reads: "Exploring the dual use of film as bth a mnemonic device and as a documentary archive, images from home movies that have been damaged slide around on the screen, revealing areas of film that are not normally projected (edgecode, sprockets, and optical track)."