Wetland Impulse
2024, 16mm, 2:00


Single frame exposures were taken while walking through wetlands surrounding my home, alternating between image and no image at a rate of two frames each on black and white reversal film. In the unexposed black frames, I made quick observational etchings from the preceding images directly into the emulsion. Projected at 24 frames-per-second, the photographic images and my subsequent renderings appear superimposed rather than sequential, unifying the indexical and interpretive.

Camera, animation, edit: Jimmy Schaus

Screenings:
Fugue State - Phase One, New York City, NY, 2025
Obskura Festival, Rennes, France, 2025
Situations of Persistence, Experimental Film Festival Process, Riga, Latvia, 2025
Screen Door, Tampa, FL, 2024
Chicago Film Society, Chicago, IL, 2024