Heim Frost
Two-channel, 26 min, Full HD video, 2016

Heim Frost is a two-channel video shot in the summer of 2015 aboard the transpacific freighter, Hanjin Brussels, during its voyage between Port Metro in Vancouver to the Port of Shanghai. The video assembles scenes of day-to-day life aboard the freighter foregrounded by the passing and unembellished anecdotes of Johannes Elmar Streicher during his position as Second Officer there.
The video explores the role of the self-assigned chronicler—a twofold presence here—beyond "the big event, the untoward, the extra-ordinary" (Perec). A sense of behind-the-scenes is contrasted with the mundane details and seemingly trivial moments of the arduous and isolated life at sea.

Thanks to:
Johannes Elmar Streicher
Kimberly Phillips
Access Gallery Vancouver (Twenty-three Days at Sea artist residency)
The Burrard Arts Foundation
Canada Council for the Arts.

Heim Frost: The Logbook (2016)
Access Gallery