Taken for granted

Families and our relationships within them are complicated. So too is our place within nature. Too often we take both for granted. 

I spent a good part of this Mother’s Day, my first and hopefully only in a pandemic, taking apart and upgrading an old iMac with the hopes of returning to the film I had digitized from three generations of Wolfs and Gilberts. 

Looking back on this last video I made, I finally understood why I chose today of all days to recommit to this work. Mom and I are seen at the end, at about the same age, 20+ years apart.

Single channel video using found family footage (16mm and 8mm) from 1937-1978; focusing on land use management, nature and play. 2:49 min.

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