Light, Distance, Time began in 1955 and continued with the unearthing of my grandmother’s film in October of 2021. This collaboration between myself and my grandmother, whom I have never met, examines the desire to document memory and transform reality into carefully curated compositions. In Light, Distance, Time, film is a physical form that lives and dies like the memories it captures. Although at once pristine, these images of midcentury America physically decay in front of our eyes and call to question the integrity of memory and our attempt to preserve it.
Light, Distance, Time incorporates found footage from the Kodak commercial archives as well as ‘found’ footage discovered in the attic of my childhood home alongside a 1960 Kodak Brownie Movie Camera, Acme Movie-Lites, and a Kodak 8mm projector. All of these materials were used to archive and digitize the fifteen rolls of standard 8mm Kodachrome film that comprises Light, Distance, Time.
RECOGNITION
Light, Distance, Time is the recipient of the 2022 Robert E. Pristo Filmmaking Award. It also was nominated for the Kodak Filmmaking Award in Cinematography.
World Premiere at Kansas City International Film Festival. Official Selection at Duke Independent Film Festival.
PRESS
Season 4 Episode 1 - Madison Hill - Experimental Documentarian, The Experimental Film Podcast
