A
composite black and white image of overlapping shadows of people at sea
and ships in the background.

Distances

2023

Amelia Marzec and Lee Tusman

Editor's note: Created in fall 2023 for the Public Domain Day Film Contest. I think it came out well.

A remixed video using public domain film and audio on the theme of early 20th century American immigration.

Public Domain

Distances is a remixed video using public domain film and audio loosely on the theme of early 20th century American immigration. The video is constructed of footage from a 1927 film on the deep sea laying of underwater transatlantic telephone cables, here appearing at times to resemble scenes of gravedigging, societal disorder and dislocation. Source footage includes trains through the Berlin countryside in the years between World War 1 and 2. This video was made using phasing techniques, created in the software Processing. The audio was created with sound samples and effects on a modular synthesizer.

2 versions uploaded: Original full resolution (Distances.mp4) and smaller file size lower resolution (Distances2.mp4)