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25297 Staged Instances

Found footage, North America, 1929. A home movie dissected.

A well-off family neatly capturing memories during the unfolding of the Great Depression. No camera flops, no crying children, no characters avoiding the camera's eye. Just a series of well-staged, edited instances. A home movie that makes you yearn for the outtakes, stripped of its staging rehearsals.

The staging and the staged. Three frame counters are superimposed on the found footage, each representing the staged, the intermediate, and, to the right, the staging: the black transient frame bridging into the next sequence. 25297 is the total number of frames. In data processing, staging refers to an intermediate storage area used during extraction, transformation, and loading. The staging area sits between source and destination. It is the data we don't see.

The book includes a QR code to watch the film online.

Short film, 2015.