Circle

Memory

10/14/2000

4 min

During Dec 2000 I travelled to India, New Zealand and Australia. I had brought along a camcorder and over a span of 3 months recorded over 12 hours of footage. I had waited a long time for the opportunity and was obsessed with documenting everything I saw as if I did not have faith in my memory.

It was a mistake to see the best parts through the lens of a camera and I have never had the desire to replay any part of the trip. Except one.

That clip I never even intended to shoot. I was in Bombay on the 15 th floor looking out of my old bedroom window. From it I could see the city spread out in every direction. I was testing the camera and zooming in and out of adjacent rooftops.

Years later that memory came back to me quite unexpectedly in a dream, and I began to recall a scene over and over again. I couldn't remember any part of my trip as vividly as those 10-15 seconds even though at the time I had paid no attention to what I was seeing and wasn't even sure if the camera was recording.

I found the clip and when I slowed it down it perfectly matched the dream .