This is a text and photo based project done in collaboration with the people of Ardmore, PA. Specifically, The Leon Spencer Reid, American Legion Post 547 was chartered August 15th, 1932.
This work tells of an intergenerational story of space, time and kinship. All images were created using 35mm film.
To read the essay in full please follow this link
Titles of works from top to bottom:
(Opening Reprise) Leon Spencer Reid American Legion Post 547, Front Entrance
(Untitled) Americanisms #1
Witness the sediment shift, the gaping valley, a weaving river
Bellow through the Wake
A human will make the ground quiver, another will calm it
We don’t need wings, we don’t need to fly
Moving image (8min 23sec)
“Land Rivers Spaghetti Catfish,” (LRSC) is a short film and community centered research project done in conjunction with Fellows in the Black Midwest Initiative Fellowship. At its genesis, The fellows were asked to answer the question “What does the Midwest mean to you?” Fellow’s responses guided the form and narrative structure of the work configured by Holland with the use of only adapted footage from the midwestern United States. The film itself is an attempt to answer and further question the “midwest,” as a geopolitical, social and cultural through people born and or raised there and those who recently migrated to or are transiting through the region. This project continues Derek’s research into modes of articulating fissures in everyday occurrences to question and criticize the modern world and identity.
Images are stills from the project. Full film is available for view upon request.
