Expo Film (this film is my memory)

Using anonymous home movie footage of Expo ’67 in Montreal, the artist sets out to recreate a memory that perhaps never existed. Celluloid manipulation and sound decay techniques coalesce to transform the mythic landscape into a sublime expanse of disintegrated memory. Sound design by Edmund Eagan. Artist statement: I completed Expo Film (is my memory) during lockdown in May 2020. Using anonymous home movie footage bought from Ebay, I set out to recreate a non-existent memory of visiting Expo ’67 in Montreal as a child. Expo Film features the exquisite work of local sound designer Edmund Eagan. With a nod to experimental American composer Alvin Lucier, he rerecords my voice until it is decayed beyond understanding.

Year

2020

Director

Penny McCann

Duration

9 min

Country

Canada

Language

English