by Jawad Chaaban and Tamara Scherbak

Commissioned by Pop Montreal and The National Film Board of Canada

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada & Pop Montreal. This is a collaboration between Tamara Scherbak and Jawad Chaaban. Jawad Chaaban is a Beirut-based electronic musician and audio artist. He has short-circuited his first radio at the age of 5. His music explores concepts of noise, sound mass, serialism, space, recycling/collage of recorded materials and much more…

Synopsis

Recycle, Reuse, Remix is a film made with a technique called data-moshing made famous in such video clips as Kanye West’s Welcome to Heartbreak and Chairlift’s Evident Utensil. We took the technique to a different place, working only with discarded materials of hundred-year-old photographs, home movie film footage and recorded audio reels found in flea markets and the trash. All glitches, bugs, compression errors, distortion and noise were welcome in this excavation into the mess of memory and the act of remembering.