Thursday, February 01, 2007

Lost City

In these cans lie 30 hours of footage shot in the 50's and 60's, Malaya. It is possibly the only colour footage shot and collected by an individual of that time period. He shot weddings, street scenes, wildlife, random everyday moments. Every detail mersmerising by virtue of their distance from the present. Ivan, now 86, is racing against time to annotate the images, but after two brain operations, he is not his usual 100%. Without any footnotes, these strips become orphaned, without context as to what where why and whom.