Third Known Nest (1999)

• 44%
• 1999
• Tom Kalin

Third Known Nest is a collection of nine short works completed approximately one each year from 1991 to 1999. Interwoven by nine quotations from some of my favorite writers, the eighteen short entries in Third Known Nest function as an intimate visual diary fractured pictures from day-to-day life. I carried a Super-8 camera with me wherever I traveled, and at home, just running errands or in the garden. I shot nearly a hundred fifty-foot reels of film. Formally, they're somewhere in between experimental film and pop cultural spin. Though distinct in tone, the cumulative impact of these individual works becomes increasingly emotional, even sentimental or nostalgic. Most of all, Third Known Nest works as a gallery of portraits in flux of myself and the people that I love: some alive, some dead. As a counterpart to my feature film work, these short pieces are pure liberation, a cheap, fast escape into the joys of the camera and montage.