Thomas Comerford

Back in 2005, filmmaker Thomas Comerford was living in Chicago and I was living in Detroit. We decided to make a film together using unsplit Regular 8mm movie film. - BB

This new cinema is created with a pinhole camera and found/homemade noise machines.

Experimental documentary about the boundary of indian and white territories.

“FIGURES IN THE LANDSCAPE…refers to older media, in that it was shot with a pinhole camera, a form of camera obscura. The images show a sprawling Chicago suburb, while texts refer to earlier inhabitants – the Indians. The tentative, not completely sharp pinhole image combines with text to suggest that the landscapes shown, like all the landscapes we create, are themselves impermanent.” – Fred Camper

The landscape of a railroad switchyard in a small Midwestern town and the relationship a French filmmaker has with the railroad. As an homage to Louis Lumiére's Arrivée and early cinema, the film feels nostalgia for the mechanical, intertwined institutions of railroad and cinema.

Back in 2005, filmmaker Thomas Comerford was living in Chicago and I was living in Detroit. We decided to make a film together using unsplit Regular 8mm movie film. - BB

This new cinema is created with a pinhole camera and found/homemade noise machines.

Experimental documentary about the boundary of indian and white territories.

Experimental documentary about the boundary of indian and white territories.

“FIGURES IN THE LANDSCAPE…refers to older media, in that it was shot with a pinhole camera, a form of camera obscura. The images show a sprawling Chicago suburb, while texts refer to earlier inhabitants – the Indians. The tentative, not completely sharp pinhole image combines with text to suggest that the landscapes shown, like all the landscapes we create, are themselves impermanent.” – Fred Camper

The landscape of a railroad switchyard in a small Midwestern town and the relationship a French filmmaker has with the railroad. As an homage to Louis Lumiére's Arrivée and early cinema, the film feels nostalgia for the mechanical, intertwined institutions of railroad and cinema.