Cellulose Documents: Forget Me Not
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Authors
Katina Bitsicas (Author)
Scott McMahon (Co-Author)
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Country
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Duration
00:04:00
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Production year
2025
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AI generated
No
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Categories
experimental film, video
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Video format
16:9
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Sound
Yes
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Type
Artwork
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Tags
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Event location
United States
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Rights
online: full length video
In Cellulose Documents: Forget Me Not, a new purpose is given to a found archive from the 1930’s of discarded studio portrait nitrate film negatives. The crumbling and decaying negatives were preserved through digital scans and reinterpreted by the artists by combining them with microscopic imagery of botanic material. This parallels the use of cellulose in nitrate film with the makeup of organic plant cell walls. Nitrate film was used by photographers and filmmakers from the 1880s to the 1950s, but was replaced by acetate safety film after it was found to be highly flammable and unstable.
