Rushlight Here Today Gone Tomorrow (1984)

Here Today Gone Tomorrow aka Rushlight was made from a single three minute roll of Super 8 footage shot over one day of stopstart driving through the Maramures folk district of Romania I reworked this footage via JK Optical Printer using a larger than normal film gate designed by myself to allow the refilming and hence layering of frame clusters as well as single frames This project explores an intersection between transition and memory passing time times past arrested in time what lies ahead through looping stretching and layering of images filmed originally while driving through this unique preserve of Romanian culture A silent visual sketchbook of sorts this work explores the repetitive cyclical structuring of this Super 8 footage developed over several years of working with a JK Printer The result is an open and meditative work around the subject of passage