Family at Hotel (32 sec. 1998) Directed, shot, and edited by Lester Alfonso using home movie footage to visualize a song recorded by Tammy Lin Foreman with baby Sunny audible in the background.
Check out also: The Instant Video Showcase and Before Instant Videos featuring videos prior to the Instant Video project and broadcast on CBC’s ZeD TV. Audio tracks are available for purchase on Tammy Lin Foreman’s Bandcamp page.
I imagine this is like going through your “junk drawer” and finding a scrap piece of paper on which there is a random, forgotten, but exquisite doodle.
Did I do this? I ask myself.
Is it beautiful enough to frame and hang on the wall? Probably not. What if this doodle wasn’t a doodle at all. What if it’s a video that is a kind of doodle — a video created as a fun exercise, something put together and set aside for “someday.”
A Facebook wall is like a fridge wall. All of my kid’s creations are tacked on by fridge magnets. Except for the kid we’re talking about is the kid inside of me.
The child inside that keeps shouting, “Look what I did! Look what I did!”
If anyone can tell you how this video got made, it would be me, but I can’t. Not right now.
We’ll have to wait for a bigger fridge for that love doodle.
Stay tuned! More soon! —LA