"Alternate Images/Recent Memories"

      This recent piece I made  for a class at The New School, "Experiments In Oral History," focuses on my very good friend of ten years, Jason Bogdan. Earlier in the semester I conducted a Life History interview with Jason and decided to craft an eight minute short visual piece for my Final. The audio features Jason discussing his early childhood, from elementary school to high school, while the imagery you see is taken from moments in Jason's life from high school to the present. With these two components covering two distinct time periods, the result, I hope, provides a glimpse into how one influences the other. An oral history does not need a visual component, of course, but I attempted to use one as an extension, and not a crutch, to its principles.

     This is in no way a momentous work. It is an audio portrait, a visual biography, an act of reciprocity, and a personal recollection of memory. It is also about crafting a narrative from a pre-formed narration; the audio was recorded in October, the visual concept was formed in November/December. Some footage from the public domain is used throughout to compliment the story (sources: 1, 2, and 3). The work has inspired me to pursue similar projects in the future related to the binary relationship between sound and image and the various forms of its distribution.