KATYA LINEHAN

KATYA LINEHAN

MEMORY: THE PAST AND PRESENT

2013

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Focusing on memory as a tool to explore the everyday, I use past and present footage to compare the mundane activities of daily life with audio and video that explores past experiences and compares them to now. I use conversations recorded from family gatherings, and voicemails to represent precious moments spent back home in California. 

Video footage of my college house, which is vacant during many hours of the day, is used as the mundane moments I spend without my family. These are the moments I look back on being with my loved ones. Black and white footage and color footage from both Colorado and California are meant to blur the lines between which footage belongs where, and how memory is always combining with the everyday.

I was provided a mic kit and canon sx230 edition camera to conduct my project on the everyday. I also used footage from a film camera to aid me. Most of the footage is recorded back in my hometown of San Francisco, California, where my family resides. The rest of my footage was shot in Colorado in various locations. To finalize my project I used iMovie software on my mac computer to edit my video and audio footage.