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soYEARN is super-8 project that i worked on accidentally. over the course of 10 or so years of shooting bands, artists, designers, friends and memories in far-flung places, i accumulated a ton of super-8. thurston moore, jim dunbar and don flemming's noise project, FOOT was doing a show at the Swiss Institute in NYC. they asked me to do multi-screen projections. one projector was showing reels of all of the footage i had cut out of other projects--scenes that were too dark, had skips in the gate, were too washed out, the iris was doing something weird, the focus was crappy--or, i just had better takes of the same material. it was everything i'd ordinarily never want anyone to see. i did a half-assed transfer of these reels--filmed off of my door and just dropped a live recording of the FOOT audio behind the images. i made no edits to the footage. i corrected none of the pervasive problems with the images.
this segment of soYEARN has some footage of sonic youth at a cool hotel we stayed at in portugal and has some out-take footage of thomas campbell skating in NYC while he was painting one of his pop-up murals at MAX FISH on the lower east side. so, here's part two of an hour's worth of murky, mundane memories