Zoe Anastasia Chronis

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Short film by Zoe Anastasia Chronis.

A shore walk with Else, Sigurður, and Jens Jakob includes many lómar (red-throated divers), among other birds, plants, and rocks. Primarily edited in-camera with a MiniDV camcorder on July 5, 2025.

A MiniDV exposure malfunction recorded at Dettifoss on April 26, 2024.

This video features two MiniDV tapes recorded with a 2002 Canon ZR45 camcorder. I performed all the editing in-camera during the course of my daily life using a method I call "Swiss-Cheesing"—randomly scanning back and forth on a tape, dropping new video through old footage. As far as I know there is no contemporary camera that allows this kind of digital chance-based editing. This is a video diary with a catch: recording a new entry destroys a segment of equal length. Juxtapositions between the two tapes occur by chance.

This video combines shots from a Mini DV tape I used in 2001 to layer in-camera juxtapositions without knowing where I was on the tape when I pressed record. In 2021 I started remixing this "found" footage through a combination of randomness and intention. This compilation includes seven variations.