Gone Too Soon

Hand made on 16mm archival footage and black and clear leader, “Gone Too Soon” explores Glacier National Park’s relationship with film. Even though film preserves nature, it is also part of the technology that destroys it. In the short, film overshadows the natural beauty of the landscape, while also being the reason we can view the park’s former glory. In this way, “Gone Too Soon” presents a dichotomy between nature and consumption, especially film consumption, utilizing sounds from the methods used to alter the 16mm (burning, freezing, taping, cutting, scratching, painting with makeup, spraying, etc).