1973: The End of the Affair is a film I made in May 2022 for The Associated Press 1-Minute Archive Film Competition.
Participants had low-res downloads of archive footage from The Associated Press, and the three finalists would be provided with clean, high-resolution, and non-watermarked footage in order to create a clean version for the festival screening.
My film was not selected, it is therefore shared in its original state. Please ignore the timecode at the bottom of the video. The years in the bottom right however were done by me.
Terribly effective irony. Well done.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Tom.
DeleteHaunting. This is very well done.
ReplyDeleteFor how much it was still in the (American) national consciousness when I was a kid in the '90s, today it almost feels like a forgotten war. I recently ran into this archival interview with an American soldier in which he eloquently discusses his own experience: https://youtu.be/tixOyiR8B-8
Thank you. I will have a look.
DeleteBut yeah, it feels like a forgotten war, except when people make some stupid analogy haha.
Very beautifully done. The name of the piece, and the repeated focus on the dates, is particularly effective. I expect you had no thought of Ukraine when you made this, but seems particularly relevant today.
ReplyDeleteThanks haha.
DeleteActually I did think about Ukraine and Afghanistan.
I'm afraid that my little thing may be too obscure for people who don't know much about the Vietnam War though.