Still Here-Bailey Karraker
Film 8:00
Still Here is an experimental reflective documentary that explores fractured environmental intimacy in the digital era through my personal reflections. The piece utilizes Blender-based animated reconstructions, digital rotoscoping and hybrid mixed media animation as the piece moves through reconstructed childhood memories to present meditations.
Bailey Karraker is an interdisciplinary storyteller with a BA in Media Production and a minor in Women and Gender Studies. She creates experimental projects that encompass mixed media films, photography, and sound works. She is passionate about how these mediums create a unique space of connection, especially how mixed media creates for engaging storytelling. Her work is centered around crafting emotional atmospheres, immersive and sensory experiences through narratives that connect us all.
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“Still Here” is an experimental reflective documentary that explores fractured environmental intimacy in the digital era through my personal reflections. The project investigates societal passivity to the climate crisis, positioning digital screens as a barrier that dissociates us from our physical environments. The piece utilizes Blender-based animated reconstructions to blur memories of outdoor childhood landscapes, immersing the viewer in the slow experience of nostalgia and dissociation as the piece moves through childhood to the present. Digital rotoscoping and hybrid mixed media animation scenes slowly disrupt this experience to focus on the present and the urgency for haptic engagement with the living physical world outside of a detached and consuming digital scroll. Beyond individual reflection, the project invites viewers into this emotional atmosphere to reflect on their own experience with this divide.
Process of the mixed media animation frames for the clock in the sky scene.
Process of the mixed media animation frames for the bulk of the field scene with a silhouette hand running through tall grass.
Process of the mixed media animation frames for the beginning of the field scene.