At the beginning and end of each roll of 16mm I shot a small part of the film is exposed to light because of the insertion and removal of the spool of film. Oftentimes images are obscured by light flashes.

I saved many of these short segments when filming and living in Chicago. All of these are spliced together creating a visual diary of my time spent there with my wife Susan. The time period was from 1971-1979. Most of the imagery is from our Chicago days with a couple of scenes from San Francisco.

Since the images are flashes and this is a look backward, I titled this short Flashbacks.

“You put the flash back in flashbacks”—Scott MacDonald

With guest appearance of Diana Ross (see if you can find her)