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Ever Behind The Sunset

Jason Mitcham · USA · Documentary / Experimental / Stop-Motion · 8 min · ♥︎ 268

A hand-painted stop-motion elegy for the artist's childhood home in Greensboro, North Carolina, erased by eminent domain, set to sounds from old family VHS tapes.

Painted landscapes slowly transform as one family's home and history vanish beneath a widened road.

A hand-painted stop-motion elegy, Ever Behind the Sunset traces the erasure of a family home by eminent domain, accompanied by a soundscape drawn from archival family VHS recordings.

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