A process film about a dead uncle's archive and the lost craft behind it
A manic drug addict tries to pawn his dead uncle's belongings to get rich.
The preprint process behind 1990s and 2000s key art, whose details were lost when my uncle died.
My uncle died and left behind potentially priceless source material for some of the most iconic images of the late 20th century.
Medical student. 10 years studying mania. About 10,000 hours in digital art and analog signal processing.
6 hours of candid recordings with his real-time commentary on the art. Access inside Davis Hospital. Two contacts who worked in preprint.
My uncle showed me the collection and it blew my mind. I told him I'd sell it and make him rich. He said it didn't matter: he was dying in a week.
While arranging his affairs, we realized neither of us could clearly explain what this material actually was.
Easy Rider. Vice shorts on drug use. Heavy figurative stills, drawing on the mannequin film.
TikTok-adjacent cuts folded into a long narrative arc. Voiceover will be attempted.
Sensory entrainment first, facts second.
Done on the fly. Every discovery and interaction is recorded live.
Davis Hospital, two preprint contacts, the archive itself.
Real-time recording as a manic unreliable narrator. Canon R5, 35mm autofocus lens, RAW.
A 1,000–1,500 word long-form journalistic piece.
Storyboards and existing footage laid over it on an annotated DaVinci timeline.
Live mic and camera in my room, feeding a central NAS 24/7.
Candid film with my uncle, already recorded
Beauty shots of tangentially related material
Exposition, with a studio-grade voiceover setup