2008 WINNERS 2007 WINNERS ABOUT ARCHIVE / SEARCH FILMS SIGN-IN CONTACT US
Re_collection
SYNOPSIS FILM INFORMATION SCREENINGS PRESS COMPILATIONS
Context:

The desire to be remembered has always been a part of the human condition. Society has forever sought to devise a form of memory that would outlast our corporeal selves. The adaptation of binary, the universal language and cornerstone of the digital system, has afforded us yet another path towards attaining this most elusive of aspirations.

Binary systems and their descendent technologies now permeate the entirety of our social strata. They coexist with us, in our hands, at all times and in all places. We sample, organise and archive, creating personal repositories of our recorded lives. We distribute these, our digitised memories, trading fragments of our most intimate experiences with strangers. Human memory is stored in machine memory, retrievable in an instant, while networks facilitate the juxtaposition and blending of these finite narratives.

Do individuals inherently seek to place their personal accounts, each transient and subtly unique, within a universal context? Are the instruments we create to mediate this process intrinsically imbued with such underlying intentions?

Re_collection is the product of one of our most ubiquitous technologies - the mobile phone. A captured moment, precious and instilled with personal significance, provides the exclusive source material for the artwork. The recorded sequence - stripped of resolution and apparent depth, has become depersonalised, reduced to a minimalist aesthetic that reveals archetypal forms and the inherent emotionals they evoke. Through this purposeful paring back of detail, the divisions between personal and universal are questioned. It is a search to reveal the underlying \\\'truth\\\' to, these, our most intimate of recollections that exist between dream and remembrance.

Process:

[ 08.05.2005 : Hyde Park, London, UK ] A subject was recorded without direction utilising only a SVP c500 smartphone as a cinematic device. From the resulting material a single 14 second audio/video stream was extracted and used (with only minor editing/manipulation) as the exclusive source material for the artwork.
FEATURED PROGRAMS
Relevant Edition 2008

A demonstration of the effect our daily news and world events has on emerging and established visual artists.
Animation 2008

Pioneering animation techniques and exciting angles to traditional animation
Halloweird 2008

The 10th year of Halloweird! Scary, weird, funny, eerie, and downright strange.
Lucky 13 Edition 2008

Celebrating 13 years of IE including gambling, numbers, success and victory
Asthmatic Kitty Records Edition 2008

Asthmatic Kitty Records selects the best IE films of 2008
VENUES
Screen Independent Exposure
Please contact:


Where does IE show?
Find out where IE shows in your area

© 2010 INDEPENDENT EXPOSURE
Sponsored By Panasonic A Project of Microcinema Independent Exposure