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SEAM

by Sheri WILLS 2021 / Super 8mm / color / sound / 1S / 3' 40

SEAM is a short experimental film shot on Super8 film that explores everyday hauntings, drawing attention to the margins of experience.

An early audio recording medium, wax cylinder recordings were the first commercially produced sound recordings. They create a snapshot of the daily life of those “early adopters” in the decades around the turn of the 20th century, who recorded the small details of their day with what was, during its time, the newest technology. Two anonymous sound recordings from wax cylinders comprise a primary part of the soundtrack to SEAM. Thanks to the University of California, Santa Barbara Cylinder Audio Archive.

Text by Francisco Rojas about le Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris 2022 for Chute Film Coop:

Sheri Wills is one of the most veteran of the filmmakers selected for the festival, yet her SEAM is the shortest work in the competition. Various images of flowers superimposed, creating highly rich saturated colors, accompanied by a soundtrack drawn from early wax cylinder recordings of daily scenes. A very soothing and calm piece. A communion of chromatic tones.

Wills wants to return to the tradition from those early sound recordings, a way of capturing and remembering “the small details of the day”, the images and the sound dialoguing as if they were from the same time. Probably a good omen for the future. We will always have the flowers.

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1 PRINT IN DISTRIBUTION

distribution format	Digital file on server (4K)
screen	1,37 (single screen)
speed	24 fps
sound	sound
rental fee	29,00 €