MiniDV, 60:02 min, color, sound, 2021
This video features two MiniDV tapes recorded with a 2002 Canon ZR45 camcorder. I performed all the editing in-camera during the course of my daily life using a method I call "Swiss-Cheesing"—randomly scanning back and forth on a tape, dropping new video through previous footage. I recorded the majority of the tapes while walking to and from my job at Community Access TV in Brooklyn. This is a video diary with a catch: recording a new entry destroys a segment of equal length. Juxtapositions between the two tapes occur by chance. Audio from both tapes plays simultaneously. Premiered at Film Diary NYC 2022.
Free of the limits of time and space,
I put together any given point in the universe,
no matter where I’ve recorded them
–Dziga Vertov
