Julie Rooney
   
   
 

Creation Myth
Digital video, animation
Excerpt: 00:58
Full Runtime: 01:46
2009

 
 

In Creation Myth an Algerian creation myth (as retold by Alexander Elliot) is read while ghostly outlines of children move through an empty house. This video looks at how a house comes to be a home, and what memories linger when that home returns to a house.

Special thanks to Gigi Fenlon

 

Once, Again

Memories are elastic, and we often change them to better fit an idea. Whether this new consideration of the memory is to provide comfort, forgot uneasiness or grief, or a product of obsession over something lost, it remains that a reinterpreted memory is often more truthful than the reality of the original physical happening. This ongoing series uses objects associated with memory preservation - photographs, videos, transparent digital editing - to highlight the confusing, emotional, and very human desire to change events of the past to better fit the needs of the present.

 
(c) Julie Rooney 2011