DRINK FROM THE RIVER

2002, 3 minutes, 16mm film-on-digital with sound

Created to be part of the collection "Underground Zero," this video attempts to put images to the emotional devastation of the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The challenge of making a piece that referenced 9/11 was impenetrable until I began to work with the power of the abstractions found in cameraless filmmaking. The dramatic fire imagery was from a filmed performance by the pyrotechnic group Therm that was contact printed with handmade Ray-o-gram loops. The black and white family imagery is from a home movie purchased at a flea market and dated 1929.

This was the first Junkie film to be edited on film, but completed on digital to render the superimpositions and effects.

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