I have tried to do what a camera does and appropriate what I have seen and experienced. The video is a collection of moments culled from memory. Moments from pop songs, films, literature, and news reports are woven together to create a new narrative. The video is haunted by real life memories of events not personally witnessed (like the bombing of Pan Am Flight 107 over Lockerbie, Scotland) as well as with phrases from films and songs.
I have staged images and created conversations which have not really happened and that I would like to remember. The props and scenarios in the video are obviously artificial because I want people to realize that they are fake and let their memories distort them over time - perhaps even allowing them to become real. The images in the video will be remembered, but how truthfully depends upon the memory of the viewer and whether that memory is photographic.

Mike Olenick