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Monument

Jeremy Drummond
United States, 2025, 17 min.

In English.

AIFF Award Winner:
Jury Award for Creative Achievement

Monument pairs hand-processed, chemically-altered Super 8mm film footage of the decaying monuments of Presidents Park (Croaker, VA) with original and appropriated community video footage captured at Marcus-David Peters Circle (Richmond, VA) during the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd/Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. Themes of registration and re-calibration, and metaphor and analogy, are explored through form and content and the distinct features of the media employed.

Director's Statement

Rooted in single-channel video, Drummond's work sits firmly between documentary and experimental media and extends across film, photography, sound, and installation. At the core of his practice is interdisciplinary research and a commitment to sustained, first-person fieldwork that explores cultural, historical, and socio-political relationships between people and place.

Category: Experimental, Award Winner.

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