The Past Is a Foreign Country (2018)
Slow motion imagery of a female face is duplicated and superimposed over itself. One of these image tracks plays in reverse; the sound of a female voice recalling the first time that she saw her lover is played over and over again, overlapping multiple times until it becomes a wall of intense sound; and the music score is an ambient electronic drone that glides along with the visuals and the dialogue. All of these elements come together to create a film that is a meditation on memory.
Director: Chris O’Neill
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Raquel Nave as Performer |
| Sound | Michael Runer | Sound Recordist |
| Camera | Katie Neff | Camera Operator |
| Crew | Brandon Ziegenfuss | Cinematography |
| Directing | Chris O’Neill | Director |
| Lighting | Randal Hall | Gaffer |
| Editing | Kieran Fitzgerald | Color Grading |