The Herman Arts Center at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, a cherished building for studio art, is slated for demolition.
This playful film guides the audience through the empty classrooms of the Herman Arts Center while evoking the activities once bustling within these walls. The film uses audiovisual techniques to create an immersive sensory experience in real time and space that nevertheless stirs feelings of dislocation and nostalgia. The film invites contemplation on the nature of memories as they fade over time, questioning what we truly capture, whether through our cameras or with our eyes: Is it merely the vision, or all its underlying associations? When we encounter an object, a space, or a soul, do we perceive only their present form, or do we also feel the weight of their entire past?
As part of a larger documentary project on the Herman Arts Center, this unconventional film suggests a new possibility within the documentary genre.
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Be sure to watch "Repositorium,"
another installment in the Herman documentary project.
Reverie in Empty Rooms
16:57 min, Sound
