Fissures

A film about forgetting and remembering, about past presences and the traces they leave. In making this piece, Bourque literally distorted the personal home movie images appearing on the film plane through various manipulations in the process of doing her own low-tech contact printing. The images warp and fluctuate, creating a distorted space of fleeting apparitions, like re-surfacing memories. The footage was hand-processed and solarized as well as hand-coloured through toning. “A very short film that meshes the beautifully overlapping style of Bruce Baillie with rhythm and sound to create a meditation in blue.” – Stephen Brophy, artsMedia, March15 – April 15, 2000 Selected screenings & awards: Director’s Citation, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, New Jersey City, NJ, 2002; Best of Balagan, The Boston Underground Film Festival, Boston, MA, 2001; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 2000; International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2000; European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany, 1999; Split Festival of New Film and Video, Croatia, 1999