Borsalino 1AM
Found footage with text, 3 mins 24 seconds duration, 2024
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Borsalino 1AM investigates the merging of reality and fiction through the medium of television. The text on screen bounces off the piece of found footage, which shows the moment it was announced that Princess Diana had been involved in a car crash, as well as the regularly scheduled film it interrupted. Coincidentally the interrupted scene, from the 1970s French gangster film Borsalino, depicted a funeral set in France. This one singular moment brings the microscope up to the mediasation of history and calls into question the unbreakable bond between the screen and the event.
Diana Loop, 1 min 43 seconds duration, 2024
Research + process
I found the piece of media from Youtube, where a user had uploaded their vhs recording of the moment Diana's crash was announced.
Initial plan
Research into other footage on the subject
Research into the concept of 'prosthetic memory',
coined by Marianne Hirsch, as part of my CP3 work.
This was significant in broadening my understanding of my relationship to the past, how memory can be passed down to those who have not experienced it and how the image plays a part in that.
'Recycled culture in contemporary art and film: the uses of nostalgia'
Chapter 1 The Returned Image
The Eternal Frame
T.R. UTHCO and Ant Farm
This filmed performance recreates the assassination of JFK repeatedly. The artists play on the idea of repetition within the media, recreation and the permanence of culturally significant images. This led me to use repetition within my own work.
The Third Memory
Pierre Huyghe
Huyghe takes a historical moment, a 1970s bank robbery, and investigates its reiteration within the media. He places footage of the initial news reports next to the film Dog Day Afternoon and lastly a recreation commissioned by the artist. This work is seminal in my research into media and memory.
Editing process using Adobe Premiere Pro
I spend time with the footage, allowing my relationship with it develop. During editing, I synced up the timing of the text to the visuals to simulate a conversational tone to the work.
I went through a period of collecting films about Diana, of which there are currently 21. The wealth of regurgitation and reiteration of Diana's story lent itself well to my research
The editing process of singling out frames from each film. I used red, green and blue to mirror the
RGB colour scheme used in television.
Editing process of Diana Loop
Images from the testing of the CRT monitors
Research into display methods of AV equipment
'Signals: How Video Transformed the Word' MoMa exhibtion, 2023
Installation plans
Alternate set up
After testing out the images behind the monitors, I decided they were unnecissary and cluttered the work so took them out for the final work