PHOTOGRAPHY
PHANTASMAGORIA: Moving Memory (2003–2009)
Dustin Lynn, 2026, 2 minutes
Between 2003 and 2009, I spent much of my time traveling with a 16mm Bolex and a Pentax K1000 hanging around my neck. While making films, I would occasionally stop to take a photograph.
Most of these 35mm photographs have remained unpublished. Over the years, as technology evolved, I would return to them, making new scans, adjusting colors, discovering things I hadn’t noticed before.
Recently, I began experimenting with generative animation, introducing movement into the photographs while trying to preserve the grain, light and imperfections of the original negatives.
The results felt strangely familiar, memories just out of reach. Places and moments began moving again. Not quite as they happened, and not quite as I remembered them, yet incredibly close.
The film is accompanied by a new original composition I wrote and recorded in Berlin
with Lina Allemano on trumpet.
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35mm photography, generative animation, editing and original music Yard Teng by Dustin Lynn.
Trumpet by Lina Allemano.
Original photographs: 2003–2009
Film completed: 2026
Dustin Lynn, 2026, 2 minutes
Between 2003 and 2009, I spent much of my time traveling with a 16mm Bolex and a Pentax K1000 hanging around my neck. While making films, I would occasionally stop to take a photograph.
Most of these 35mm photographs have remained unpublished. Over the years, as technology evolved, I would return to them, making new scans, adjusting colors, discovering things I hadn’t noticed before.
Recently, I began experimenting with generative animation, introducing movement into the photographs while trying to preserve the grain, light and imperfections of the original negatives.
The results felt strangely familiar, memories just out of reach. Places and moments began moving again. Not quite as they happened, and not quite as I remembered them, yet incredibly close.
The film is accompanied by a new original composition I wrote and recorded in Berlin
with Lina Allemano on trumpet.
—
35mm photography, generative animation, editing and original music Yard Teng by Dustin Lynn.
Trumpet by Lina Allemano.
Original photographs: 2003–2009
Film completed: 2026
