Heidi Phillips, Revival | 2009 | 8min | DV | Canada
Revival is a short 16mm experimental film about isolation, risk and rescue. The film is derived from Super-8 films I found while thrift store shopping in Montréal. Watching them I was most drawn to the images of helicopters and the barren landscapes. I reprinted the imagery using various darkroom techniques and hand processed the results. Throughout the process I found myself surprised with the results, which motivated me to experiment further. Revival is the first film in which I took creative control over the audio as well. I had great fun exploring in this new element of my work.
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Heidi Phillips is an experimental filmmaker based in Winnipeg. Phillips constantly sifts and searches through old films, lifting imagery and sound to recycle into her own layered and loosely structured narrative works. She completed her MFA at Transart Institute Austria, in August of 2008. Her recent film, Revival showed at Ace Art Winnipeg in 2009.
