The capability of film to portray the ‘real’ is powerful, much more powerful than straight photography, which is limited by its finite nature. A photograph captures a moment, while film captures a length of time. A photograph is, by its very nature, an end to a moment. The moment the photograph is taken, the moment is at an end. Photographs suggest a ‘then’ quality, whereas cinematic narrative keeps attention on the ‘now’ aspect of the activity presented.
My use of film to capture the banal and mundane in my life is fitting then, because of the nature of the mundane to exist in the now and always. Habit dulls the mind, but it can also be comforting. The mundane has the ability to serve as a tool for substitution or repression. Focusing on the “mundane, everyday experiences that seem more likely to be partial, or more precisely screen memories for something else – substitutions or reframings in order to compensate for the blocked, unwanted and repressed memory.”1
1. Anthony Vidler, Warped Space, pg. 164
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