Our Community in 24 Frames Per Second

These images back-to-back reflect the movement of cinema (24 fixed images per second) and the zooming technique.

Each image of a community member is connected by this zooming movement to better express our relationship to K, which includes students, professors, and employees.

To carry out this project, we asked you, members of the Kalamazoo College community, to lend us your photos. With these photos we wanted to represent our community in the time of the pandemic, where we are physically separated.

We gained inspiration for this project while watching the film Faces, Places directed by Agnès Varda and JR, but we adapted their methods and ideas for our community in these specific times.

This installation was created for Professor Chatton’s Spring 2021 francophone cinema class that explores the question of community.

This installation was created by Eleri Watkins,
Claire Kvande, and Camille Misra