HOMETOWN DREAMS:  Embarkation

World War II was for many young men raised in rural Alberta an opportunity to leave the community, explore the world and to learn a new trade.   In 1944, my grandmother commissioned a photographer to film her son as he said goodbye to his fiancée and the family.  Titled, “Embarkation,” the resulting 16 mm film was archived and replaced by an 8 mm version that was viewed by the family year after year.   The 8 mm film slowly disintegrated. The film’s lost and shifted color, torn and scratched surfaces all became for me, the whole of the experience. 


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