Happy Birthday
HD Video, 79 seconds , colour, 2012
After my son was born, I increased the number of home movies I would shoot. With the proliferation of video within digital cameras, this increased once again. Since my son was quite young, we also saw a dramatic escalation of the frequency of birthday parties we were invited to, with family and with kid friends. I have been thinking about this project since 2004 and began collecting the birthday singing in its entirety at every possible opportunity, knowing my end goal but with no idea what it might sound like. VIDEO