The works are informed by Carlo Rovelli's proposition that our experience of time is structured by memory and anticipation. Shown as they pass through the projector—upside down and backwards—the film segments contain two adjacent frames separated by a black interval. One image recedes into memory, another approaches as anticipation, while the space between them becomes a fleeting representation of the present, ordinarily visible for only 1/24th of a second.

Cinematic Still Works are made from scanned 35mm film segments that have circulated through cinemas. Each segment is taken from a moment of transition within a film and enlarged at a scale that preserves the scratches, blemishes, and traces accumulated through projection and handling.