These are stills that I collected while working for Rick Prelinger as a research assistant. Of the millions of frames of mostly anonymous home movie footage that I watched I began to curate this collection of stills, split seconds in time of a much longer narrative, that I found particularly enchanting, amusing, or striking in some way. It’s the accidental nature of these shots — from films that haven’t been seen in so many years and perhaps were never meant to be seen again — that I find so provocative. I think the ambiguous and enigmatic essence of these narratives is so fantastic because although we will never have any clue as to what these are or what the real story is (especially because I viewed them without sound) I think we can all see a little bit of ourselves and our own memories and experiences within them. And that I think just gives me the warmest feelings about humanity. I also like that for as far back as the camera can remember we have been playing pranks on our pets. — Emma Hurst
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