Nothing2004 is a 25-minute compilation built from a home video recorded in 2004. Rather than centering its subjects, the edit isolates the moments in which the camera loses focus: footage of floors, walls, drifting light, tremors between gestures, images that exist on the periphery of intention. These fragments are extracted and reassembled, refusing narrative clarity in favor of disorientation and pause.

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The footage is repeatedly re-recorded using the same camera that originally captured it. Through this recursive process, the image degrades over time, gradually collapsing into simplified fields of light and sound. What begins as documentation becomes erosion; memory losing fidelity through repetition, translation, and distance.

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The work reflects my dissonant relationship to family and cultural inheritance in Spain, alongside my father’s experience of leaving his home country and learning to root himself in more than one place. The degradation of the image mirrors the instability of belonging, where memory is partial, mediated, and continually re-authored. Influenced by diaristic and material approaches to cinema, particularly the work of Jonas Mekas, the piece treats the home video not as archive but as a living surface, one that bears the marks of time, longing, and return.