Pomona, 2008
16 mm black & white and color super 8 transferred to digital video. 4 minutes, 15 seconds. a film by Marya Krogstad. cast: Alexandra Heilbron, David McFarland. Pomona is the second film of a trilogy. This film short is in part a re-making of a memory taken from a post-Great depression era personal history, a hauntology. The promise of youth is darkened by exploitation. Play at moderate volume. V-full video. Please click on Vimeo link for better streaming: https://vimeo.com/45765550

Video documentation of Untitled (disappear darkroom, version A), 2000-07, 2007, duration-1 minute, 45secs. mostly silent. The video camera stands in for the viewer and records its own reflection in the mirror as the light gradually dims to complete darkness. Please click on Vimeo link for better streaming: https://vimeo.com/45728502

Marya Krogstad's "Untitled (Disappear Darkroom)" also reminds us of our own mortality. She constructed a booth where one sits and contemplates their own image in a large mirror as the light wanes, which then causes your eyes to see an afterimage around your silhouette. It's akin to experiencing a live photograph, and almost like seeing your ghost. All at once, you are reminded of your presence, inevitable absence, and the fleeting nature of memory. These images are of me sitting in Marya Krogstad's Untitled (Disappear Darkroom), watching myself disappear into nothing but an aura. (From SFGate, JD Beltran, Vernissage. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/beltran/detail?blogid=85&entry_id=40429#ixzz0vDBYXa63)

"I can adjust the period for the light to fade, etc....I love when you are out in the wilderness...the colors at dusk, when the light fades and everything (your vision) shifts to grainy black and white...like film...I wanted to watch myself disappear." Marya Krogstad, 2007