The song of Avila - a study of home video and manipulation

As part of my process, I have been watching a lot of experimental shorts to inspire me. This video 'A song of Avila' has especially captured me in its use of found/ home footage and its manipulation of these clips. Through its editing it speeds up, slows down, emphasises imperfections in the film itself and allows a narrative to be built through the juxtaposition of the voice and image. Many of the shots are cropped in too close or framed strangely, a technique that displaces the viewer as we are never quite allowed to fee the full picture, just fragments of it. The use of increased speed in these clips is akin to when you press the fast forward button on a VHS player, something that for me particularly instils a sense of nostalgia and puts an emphasis on time both in the sense of an editing technique (speed/duration) but also it is a hark back to a specific time when that technical flaw was commonplace . Through the manipulation of the time speed of these clips I am drawn to thinking about time as an overarching concept and how to produce that sense of recollection of fragmented past time as nostalgic.