Moving Along . . .

This short film was created for an video editing class at the Center For Documentary Studies, where I've been learning the language of Final Cut Pro for the past month. The assignment called for a meditation on the idea of home using "found sound" and still photographs.

In considering the idea of home, I headed off to a huge abandon tobacco factory in Durham that has been like a haunted home for me over the course of the the past three years as I worked on a photography project there. At the height of Big Tobacco, this factory complex was flush with thousands of toiling souls and it's impossible not to image their lives that playing out while walking through the corridors and wide open floors by yourself. Every sound carries an eerie echo, especially when you're navigating by flashlight in cowboy boots. There are lockers on every floor in the factory, some of them contain traces of their past occupants.

This film imagines a former employee returning for a lost memento.

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photographs from last days of operation inside the tobacco factory