Beautiful Summer

Gestures trapped in photographic stillness call to be freed by movement. At their most base form pixels do their dance pretending to be trees. 

production, direction, animation by Jenny Nirgends
stop-motion, digital video, 35mm, 16mm
May 2024, 7:04 , color, sound, video

stills

Comprised of 35mm print stills from the family archives of composer Jill Fraser, dating to the midcentury, reenactment and re-photography animate and marry the photographic fragments to the contemporary moment. The analogue-digital re-output to 35mm and 16mm creates an expanded motion, interpreted in pixels, these microscopic undulations exist like a memory- fleeting between frames. 

source materials and 35mm film

Photography Priscilla Mars & the archive of Jill Fraser

Featured in curated music video program MuVi International at the 71st International Shortt Film Festival Oberhausen.