The Memory Stitch: Winter Sports / Point de mémoire: les sports d'hiver
Installation (Handmade raw wool screens (felted and knit), dual channel SD video projections of digitized Super 8mm films shot in 2008-2009 and Regular 8mm found footage from 1934-1936, wood dowel, wire, sound), Variable dimensions
Film distributed by the Winnipeg Film Group,
Photo Credit: Jacquelyn Hébert
MFA Open Studios, Subgallery, Concordia University, 2010
The Memory Stitch: Winter Sports / Point de mémoire: les sports d'hiver, Video Still
Film distributed by the Winnipeg Film Group,
The Memory Stitch: Winter Sports / Point de mémoire: les sports d'hiver, Found footage video still (1934)
The Memory Stitch: Winter Sports / Point de mémoire: les sports d'hiver, Installation detail (Projection of digitized Regular 8mm found film from 1935 onto handmade wool screen)
Photo Credit: Jacquelyn Hébert
Film distributed by the Winnipeg Film Group,
Description
The Memory Stitch: Winter Sports / Point de mémoire: les sports d'hiver is an installation work that seeks to reclaim and reimagine memories captured on small-gauge film. This work also looks at technology's effect on the making history. Hébert explores this through a juxtaposition of reconfigured found footage from the 1930's and newly created Super 8 films that were inspired by those archival images. These non-linear short narratives are synchronized and edited in such a way that the stories respond to each other and are intended to be projected onto handmade screens. Both films are united by a single overarching soundtrack created from ambient audio gathered while shooting in Manitoba. The Memory Stitch / Point de mémoire explores the spirit of nostalgia, playfulness, and the re-creation" of memory.
The Memory Stitch: Winter Sports / Point de mémoire: les sports d'hiver, Digitized Super 8mm (2009), Video Still
Film distributed by the Winnipeg Film Group,
The Memory Stitch: Winter Sports / Point de mémoire: les sports d'hiver, Digitized Super 8mm (2009), Video Still
Film distributed by the Winnipeg Film Group,
The Memory Stitch: Winter Sports / Point de mémoire: les sports d'hiver, Digitized Super 8mm (2009), Video Still
Film distributed by the Winnipeg Film Group,
The Memory Stitch: Winter Sports / Point de mémoire: les sports d'hiver, Screen installation view, Emily Carr University, Abraham Rogatnik Media Gallery (2008)