24 Frames per Second

A corrupted digital archive of a vanishing world, pulling memory, childhood, family, love, protest, the city and catastrophe into broken bits of signal: frames flicker, glitch, overlap and slowly come apart. Reality reaches us secondhand — through a stream of media evidence: surveillance cameras, screen errors, satellite images, interface noise, fragments of someone else’s pain. Beneath the digital static there’s an anxious attempt to hold on to something alive. The footage drifts between disaster and quiet meditation, tracking a slow loss of quality, memory and connection.

It started with music — Rival Consoles' track "Recovery," which set an editing rhythm close to stop-motion and shaped many of the images. Stills were generated in Midjourney and animated in Kling, building on a DEPROFLEX moodboard with added digital noise and glitch. The final edit and color were done in DaVinci Resolve.