Connor McCormick is a PhD student in the MATX program at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research focuses on the conflation of personal and collective memory through film, video, and new media. His interests lie specifically in the French filmmaker Chris Marker’s use of archival and documentary footage as a tool for complicating grand historical narratives. The introduction of video technology to the art world during the 1970’s marks a particularly important historical moment to this research, as video’s portability and extendedness allowed for more intimate personal vision to be represented in the moving image, while the manipulation of historical footage through video synthesizing offered alternative visions to the historical imaginary. His future projects aim to trace Marker’s artistic trajectory along this historical continuum, looking specifically at the political nature of the filmmaker’s projects moving from militant leftist films, to essayistic reflections on time, memory, and the horrors of the past.