Distortion, 2022
collected images from 1918 influenza and Covid-19 pandemics
video: 13:36
This film blurs the century between the world’s most recent pandemics, the 1918/1919 influenza and Covid-19. This experimental film explores the similarities between the two pandemics despite all of our technological advances in the intervening 100 years. Covid-19 imagery is transformed to mimic the visual aesthetic of 1918/1919 archival imagery. The footage of each time period is interspersed to make the viewer realize how similar these two pandemic events have been.
video: 13:36
This film blurs the century between the world’s most recent pandemics, the 1918/1919 influenza and Covid-19. This experimental film explores the similarities between the two pandemics despite all of our technological advances in the intervening 100 years. Covid-19 imagery is transformed to mimic the visual aesthetic of 1918/1919 archival imagery. The footage of each time period is interspersed to make the viewer realize how similar these two pandemic events have been.