Some Mistakes I Have Made

"Mistakes are a gift to begin to imagine."  -Stéphane Mallarmé
Picture
       
                     digital film.  19 min. 37 sec.   2021 
                      from original super-8mm, 16mm film
                      and   half-inch video
                       Musical contributions by
                       Rob Stephenson
                       and John Wynne
29 second excerpt from Some Mistakes I Have Made
​musical fragment by Rob Stephenson
51 second excerpt from Some Mistakes I Have Made

   Some Mistakes I Have Made is a re-imagined record of 'mistakes' inspired by reels of typewriter correction tapes saved for 30 years.  This Number 14 in my Visible Inventory series is a compendium of errors re-envisioned as opportunities culled from film and video footage that I shot and hand-processed since 1973 and typewriter correction tapes that I saved from the time before I used a computer.
How often do we get to see our mistakes in life graphically recorded? Do these recordings of past failures reveal any new meanings?

​View the artist book that preceded and inspired the film here

Purchase the micro-book companion to the film here  at the Shapeshifters Cinema online store and here at the San Francisco Cinémathèque online shop.