In 1888, George Eastman launched the first Kodak camera with the slogan “You push the button. We do the rest!" Pre WW1 Kodak started to replace nitrocellulose (guncotton) with a recently invented plastic, cellulose acetate; solid, cheap to produce, and provider of a shiny surfaces. Mr. Eastman predicted a huge consumer market cost were reduced and production, use and distribution, simplified. 

The wanted consumer group was the mass immigration, the newly moved to the US, to send images as “postcards” back home. The images would carry a sentimental, relational message, as well as being representations of the “New World”: where science, economy, global politics, and commodities successfully merged. A similar strategy was behind the home video camera, Super 8mm. in the 1950 - 60s.

In 2014–2016 I travelled to Lebanon, Palestine, Russia and Abkhazia. To document my travels I used a Super 8mm camera. When developing the films, only fragments appeared on the cellulose acetate safety base. As if representation collapsed on my “postcards.”

HD recorded Super 8mm footage, Plexiglas screens coated with cellulose acetate dope, Plexiglas stands and table, cellulose acetate objects. 9 – 13 min video loops of four single channel projections with sound.