from February issue of Film Ireland ed. Paul Rowley/Nicky Gogan

Happiness for One Day

The frame of film here was exposed in late summer of 1997, but did not find its way into this film until nearly ten years later. It was exposed by a man holding a motion camera for the first time, and who was leaving the rather hermetic activity of writing in favor of the more social activity of making films. His first attempt failed to capture the intensity of its subject. He did not understand the Image, and how it functioned. Many years later after much experimenting and watching films he came to understand the function of the Image closely followed what he understood the great quest of the Alchemists was; transformation of everything. The self, the world, its lands and peoples here changed through light and motion. He set to re-editing the footage, and what you see here is an image of happiness felt and exposed to the sun on the hills of the Altamont Pass.

pictured is Heidi Follin