Ravens in the Present
HD Video , 2 minutes, colour, 2012
I was curious about a technique I'd read about where in 1996, Phyllis Baldino created a film called "In the Present" where she experimented with long and short term memory. By separating images by a number of seconds, the images are moved to long term memory resulting in the viewer no longer being able to compile them into a sequence using their short term memory. To test this myself, I used a clip of video I shot in the Northgate Mall parking lot where ravens were flocking, interested in trash left there. The separation of the frames by black but too great a length of time, prevents the viewer from being able to compile the images into a sequence in their mind and understand it as motion. VIDEO