Traditionally feminine materials and processes—nail polish, glitter, hand-painting—convert cinematic wilderness spaces, and the filmstrip itself, into representations of girlhood.
Digital footage of the river near the filmmaker's childhood home is laser-printed directly onto 16mm film, creating a shifting, liquified halftone. Memory dissolves into the texture of time. The printing bleeds onto the optical sound strip, the image obscuring the soundtrack. The landscape is impossible to return to.
Roads fall into the sea and a travelogue breaks against the landscape.
