Practice
Burials Journal
A chronicle of burying, unearthing and working with film.
- Burials Journal 1
May 9th, 2011 BURIALS JOURNAL 1 May 2011 (autumn) I’ve started by selecting several reels of 8mm and 16mm film. There are also a few rolls of 35mm film (stills). Most of this film
- Unearthing Journal 1
June 15th, 2011 UNEARTHING JOURNAL 1 June 2011 (late autumn) One month later (after multiple rains). Film is unearthed from the pile of decomposing leaves, washed and hung up to dr
- Burials Journal 2
August 24th, 2011 BURIALS JOURNAL 2 August 2011 (winter) Film is again reburied after the experimental transfer with the RED camera. This time part of the film is buried in the ear
- Unearthing Journal 2
February 9th, 2012 UNEARTHING JOURNAL 2 February 2012 (summer) Film is unearthed after Burials Journal 2 More decay, discoloration, entire sections of film are heavily damaged and
- Burials Journal 3, 4, 5 & 6
March 18th, 2012 BURIALS JOURNAL 3,4,5 & 6 March 2012 (late summer) 16mm, super 8mm and 35mm film is reburied in the earth. The strips of film are completely submerged into the hol
- Burials Journal 7
June 21st, 2012 BURIALS JOURNAL 7 June 2012 (first day of winter) Today I buried 3 new reels of 16mm film in the earth. This is film I shot in April (filmed portraits) and it was r
- Unearthing Journal 2b
June 21st, 2012 UNEARTHING JOURNAL 3 June 21, 2012 (first day of winter) This film has been lying around for the past 4 and a half months, exposed to the elements in a pile of deco
- Unearthing Journal 3
April 28th, 2013 UNEARTHING JOURNAL 3 April 28, 2013 I began unearthing film that Burials Journal 3, 4, 5 & 6 today. So much time has passed that I forgot the exact location of the
- Unearthing Journal 4
April 29th, 2013 UNEARTHING JOURNAL 4 April 29, 2013 I unearthed another pile of film today from the group that Burials Journal 3, 4, 5 & 6. This film was easier to find since it w
- Unearthing Journal 5 & 6
April 30th, 2013 UNEARTHING JOURNAL 5 & 6 April 30, 2013 I unearthed the last two heaps of film thatBurials Journal 3, 4, 5 & 6. The first bunch of film was hard to find but after
- Unearthing Journal 7
November 27th, 2013 Burials Journal 7. The film has been underground for over a year and a half. I’m moving houses so I need to unearth it. My plan is to clean it and examine close
- Burials Journal 8
April 1st, 2014 BURIALS JOURNAL 8 April 1, 2014 Today I buried 4 reels of 16mm film in the earth. Two of them had never been buried before, it was film I shot last year (April 2013
- Unearthing Journal 8
July 1st, 2014 BURIALS JOURNAL 8 July 1, 2014 Today I unearthed the 4 reels of 16mm film Burials Journal 8. The film was quite moist and caked in mud when I took it out of the eart
- Rey — 35 mm burial, restoration and film transfer
During the post-production of Rey, I returned to buried film for a final sequence of experiments on 35 mm. This journal brings together the burial and unearthing, the “precarious restoration” of…