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Pulcera is a 27 minuet experimental documentary exploring the ideological spaces between memory and remembering. Through taped phone conversations with my father the film begins to examine how memory is not only unfaithful, but that our willingness to construct our past in order to give substance to the present is an essential human paradox.

The piece - a combination of Super8 and 16mm half hand processed film - complicates its own exploration into memory by creating events that make the audience question my authenticity and intentions. Layers begin to peel back from the wallpaper that has been plastered over our past, leaving myself and my father exposed but not vulnerable.

Stylistically Pulcera attempts to use a visual language of remoteness and abstraction. Images contain symbols, and eventually the symbols become broken light. These light studies are used symbolically to represent the absence and the imprint our memories leave, as well as disrupt the otherwise observational cinematography.