Vintage film

Make the memory film the people in these pictures will watch again and send to each other: their own photos and clips, as if found on an old reel or in a box of prints. Surprise us; the expected version is not the goal.

The pictures are the film. The film look is how they were taken and printed, part of each picture rather than a filter laid over it, and it never changes who or what is in them.

What has to be true

• The people and moments untouched. Faces, bodies, who was there and what was behind them stay as they were: what a darkroom could do (crop, scale, color, grain, light) and nothing more. No face restored, no picture extended, no person made to move or smile, unless the person asks; then say it is generated.
• Only true words. Dates, places and names come from the person or the pictures' own metadata, never guessed; the real order is kept unless they want another.
• Everyone who matters stays in the frame, through every move.
• It holds up next to the best memory films you know. Watch the whole film as a viewer would, and keep refining until it does. If anyone's photos could be dropped into it, it is not done yet.