Kindergarten Prometheus

5 minutes • video • 2008

A trance film meditation on childhood and fire that uses 16mm found footage.

 

“Under the heat of Medina’s editorial scalpel, mundane 1950s melodrama grows back fresh daily for our consumption. We watch Medina’s resurrected images. Each archived shot is a neon signpost leading us into a collective unconscious. Medina slowly cracks each shot open to reveal the wisdom of innocence, the eternal allure of the warm flicker illuminating the damp cave, the retinal pleasure of decaying celluloid, and the eternal allure of myths burned into its emulsive skin.

-Cauleen Smith, Carousel Microcinema program notes

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