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Holding

About the Movie

director: Ana Valine

Vancouver, British Columbia

July 11/12, 2020

5min 25sec

shot on: iPhone 4, Canon fx100, Elmo Projector, Da-lite screen, 16mm Archival footage, Prelinger Archives

edited with: Final Cut 7

Archival images of people joyfully in close contact are used to express how hesitant we are now to touch.

“I’ve been working with archival 16mm film and am exploring re-creation of meaning using these old moving images. There’s a lot of silence around my creativity these days, often because I’m running out of words to express the surreal and disorienting feelings of our present pause. I was drawn to the images of joy and contact and recognize how hesitant we are now to touch.” – Ana Valine