Harriet Todd

I work with found postcards and aged photographs, making from them film, sound and digital collages. These glimpses into moments captured from the lives of others might be all that remains of significant personal events. This began an exploration of my own family albums and the subject of memory. My videos layer photographs, postcards and short films to create a sensory experience. Films that layer and distort particular outtakes selected from the albums, which stand in as authentic, raw depictions of the time, uncomposed and unguarded, perhaps a blur of movement or poorly framed shot, suggest a fleeting glimpse of real life.