debris

Scraps of deciduous films and photographs accumulate and eventually create new scenes. “debris” is made from many filmstrips（about 300 strips）. These filmstrips have become trash with fragments of the film which has been cut off during the screening at the movie theater. I got them from my friend who were an owner of a small movie theater. For movie theaters it may be trash, but for me, the fragments of the film felt very attractive. It is impossible to screen as a movie with one or a few frames of film. However, I observe one frame of each film piece accumulated, extract surface scratches and physical damage, and I reconstructed it into a new movie. This work raises a question as to whether movies and photographs become trash.

Year

2023

Director

Keitaro Oshima

Duration

11 min

Country

Japan