Glimpses is a video installation that explores human connection through the lens of memory and nostalgia. It aims to confront society’s capitalist predisposition to hyper-consume and then discard obsolete technologies. Using these technologies to both shoot and display the work, hopes to challenge our broken value system. 

With footage shot over a year in a reflexive documentary and home video style, the non-linear, multi-channel narrative plays on our preconceptions of nostalgia, becoming a metaphor for memory’s inherent fragility and susceptibility to external manipulation. This ‘anticipatory nostalgia’ for a time that hasn’t happened redefines how we experience memories with the passage of time.  

The work proposes that a wealth of human connection and memory is contained in obsolete technologies. The loss of these physical media highlights the potential impact of the digital revolution on how we store, retrieve and re-encounter our memories.