In a candid voice over, a Kansas retiree remembers the wide variety of jobs she had over the course of her working life. This plays alongside home movie footage of her as a young woman in the 1950s. Despite the constraints that were often put on women of this time period, she pursued a wide variety of quite different careers, including becoming the first certified female piano technician and tuner in the state of Kansas. The home movie footage, which is made up of digitally transferred 8mm film, depicts this woman primarily at play, well before she began her pursuit of her various careers.
The juxtaposition of voice over and movie footage highlights the passage of time in the woman’s life as well as the differing spheres and modes of being in which we all live. The video moves through a sequence of home movie scenes and then replays it in reverse order, creating a kind of visual palindrome that suggests the cyclical nature of these life moments. Likewise, the quality of the images themselves highlights questions of time, memory, and ephemerality. Like the working and larger life of a person, a recording medium belongs to a period of time and, ultimately, passes away.
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