(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="255" align="right"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="right"><img border="0" src="../stills/yesteryear-poster.jpg" width="250" height="375"></td> </tr> </table> <p>Basically, <b>Yesteryear</b> is an experiment about collective memory, splicing together (rather mundane) footage from home videos from various not always related sources from exclusively past decades in a rather random manner (though grouped to highlight various events) with no explanation given, not even to who the people in the videos are or how the different shots are connected - if at all that is.<p> <p>Now all this might sound rather random, no more than a futile exercise in editing, however the result is oddly mesmerizing, as without given any cultural or social or historical context beyond what's really on screen (like "birthday", "Christmas", "New Year's Eve"), one just starts to liken the footage to one's own memories, explore one's own past through the memories of a complete stranger - and that's really quite a fascinating process. <p>  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2020"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>