MMXXI (Two Tapes)  |  MiniDV,  |  5:38 min excerpt of 60 min  |  color, sound  |  2021

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​This video features two MiniDV tapes recorded with a 2002 Canon ZR45 camcorder. I performed all the editing in-camera during the course of my daily life using a method I call "Swiss-Cheesing"—randomly scanning back and forth on a tape, dropping new video through previous footage. I recorded the majority of the tapes while walking to and from my job at Community Access TV in Brooklyn. This is a video diary with a catch: recording a new entry destroys a segment of equal length. Juxtapositions between the two tapes occur by chance. Audio from both tapes plays simultaneously. Premiered at Film Diary NYC 2022.

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free of the limits of time and space, I put together any given point in the universe, no matter where I’ve recorded them.

     –Dziga Vertov

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the beginning and the end are there at once.

      –Barnett Newman, "Painters Painting," 1972

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