top of page
Title.png

The Covid-19 Pandemic hit while I was taking a Documentary Lab Class with Prof. Laura Green. As a result, I wanted to make my final project something I could create without leaving my family home I was quarantined in. My mother has been a knitter for over a decade, not just creating her own projects but also recording a bi-weekly podcast with her mother and maintaining an online community on Ravelry. These are all things she holds near and dear to her, and I'm very proud of this film I made in tribute to them.

Again from Media Archaeology, we at one point were tasked with creating a project using picture-in-picture effects from Adobe After Effects in mind. I decided to step out of my comfort zone a bit and used early-to-mid-20th-century archival footage including a documentary on watchmaking, the 1955 Ford parade, and 1906 footage of a busy San Francisco street to make a film about time travel. I had never used After Effects before, and though rough around the edges, I very much enjoyed the filmmaking process here.

Another class from my time in the Cinema Program at SFSU that I very much enjoyed was Media Archaeology with Prof. Greta Snider. These projects gave me the opportunity to explore an idea I've been interested in for awhile: the dark side of nostalgia. With these films, I ask the viewer, "what happens when you recognize something from your youth, but the thing in-question is noticeably wrong?"

Another class from my time in the Cinema Program at SFSU that I very much enjoyed was Media Archaeology with Prof. Greta Snider. These projects gave me the opportunity to explore an idea I've been interested in for awhile: the dark side of nostalgia. With these films, I ask the viewer, "what happens when you recognize something from your youth, but the thing in-question is noticeably wrong?"

Another class from my time in the Cinema Program at SFSU that I very much enjoyed was Media Archaeology with Prof. Greta Snider. These projects gave me the opportunity to explore an idea I've been interested in for awhile: the dark side of nostalgia. With these films, I ask the viewer, "what happens when you recognize something from your youth, but the thing in-question is noticeably wrong?"

© 2022 by Will Bezerra
Created with Wix.com

bottom of page