HD video, black and white, sound, 4:09, 2025

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Letter is a short film made of still images and animated text. The images were originally created as photograms for a photo series I titled Undetectable. Photograms are a cameraless photographic technique invented in the 19th century; the images are created by placing objects directly onto photosensitive paper, exposing the paper to light and then processing them in the darkroom. The objects I used to make these images are salt, sugar, pepper, star anise, balloons, a light bulb, objects I found in the darkroom, and my hands. The hand-drawn animated text describes several futile attempts to communicate with an unknown entity. Hope and acceptance, connection, dream, desire and speculation characterize this short work.

Production, Images, Sound, Edit: Jenny Perlin

Sound mix: Paul Hill, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio

Audio: Hand sinking in coffee beans by Thalamus_Lab -- https://freesound.org/s/234641/, Music for 6 Boom Boxes by Thalamus_Lab -- https://freesound.org/s/232689/ License: Attribution 3.0

Support provided by the Oslo National Academy of Art and the Film/Video Studio at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio