I found a decaying print of Nanook of the North buried in the archive at Northwest Film Forum. Vinegar-soaked. Warped. Unstable. I let it keep rotting. Then I pushed it further: through photochemical abrasion, through touch, through light.
I approach the material not to represent it, but to hold it. To sit with its damage. To mark it with heat, with light, with gesture. I am not re-presenting the image. I am pressing against its surface, smearing its claim to objectivity. I see myself not as a filmmaker, but as an image handler.

What do we do with the myths we inherit?
We unmake them.
We hold them until they blur.
We watch them burn.
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Hogan Seidel is a Boston-based artist working in the traditions of experimental film and photography.
Their current artistic research, framed through poetic, political, and personal lenses, delves into contemporary queer discourse, queer history, and queer ecology. Hogan currently is an assistant teaching professor of photography at Simmons University.