On: Emulsion

No matter where one is located upon this finite roll of film, the moments captured by each individual camera operator live within the each operator’s camera. Buried within the layers of subtractive colors, mixed amid emulsion and transparent bases, lies a ghost—waiting to be born and re-presented in another moment beside that in which its predecessor still survives. This ghost that lives within each camera operator’s camera is by far one of the most technological advancements developed in the last century. The instrument of the camera, allows a ghost to be born while the film within that camera allows the ghost to be preserved. By stealing the ‘light’ of an entity or alive being, the camera operator is preserving the opportunity for the ghost to appear. Then at a later moment, in which what-has-come-before ceases to exist, the magical-ness of technology amazingly conjures what has passed: one spool beings unwinding onto another, the film starts to move, the shutter spins and the light that was captured within the camera-operators box reveals itself… beautifully the light with which is dancing provides accompaniment to a ghost on the wall, entangled in the spotlight before us.