diane (wrapped in plastic (2011/2022)

Joanna Byrne and Mark Byrne, super 8mm film with magnetic sound: digitised, 3mins30s

A super 8 hauntology. Reimagining a series of one-way conversations with the permanently off-camera Diane, foraged in fragments from the screen of a cathode ray TV - onto an expired Ektachrome 160 super 8 sound cartridge (best before 1990). The film was home-processed, then wrapped in plastic and buried in the woods.

‘Diane…’ is a collaboration between the original source material, ourselves, the body of the film, and the earth it was buried in. The soundtrack was recorded directly onto the magnetic strip of the film, firstly in camera, secondly using a super 8 motorised editor, adding to the fragmentation and abstraction of the soundtrack (No additional digital editing has taken place).

The film can be screened in its original form on a sound super 8mm projector, or as a digital video.

screening:

Upcoming in 2024:

SCAF Emerging Journeys, 29 November-29 December, Northallerton [group exhibition].

2024:

Analogica 14, Bolzano, Italy

Light Matter Film Festival Touring Programme @ New York Filmmakers Co-op, New York | Museo Nacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador | Kino Palais, Buenos Aires | No Name Cinema, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2023:

Light Matter Film Festival, Alfred, NY (US)

Filming and Foraging Symposium & Screening curated by Joanna Mayes and the Sustainable Darkroom [online screening - 18 July-1 August]. Programme notes

DIANE (WRAPPED IN PLASTIC) ON VIMEO

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