DIRECTED BY: RYAN ALEXIEV
CO-DIRECTED BY: JESSICA INGRAM
PRODUCED BY: HANK WILLIS THOMAS
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: BAYETE ROSS SMITH AND JORGE SANCHEZ

Commissioned by SF Camerawork and on display at the Oakland International Airport (Terminal 2 Media Wall), I See it Now follows a long-established photographic tradition of capturing the Bay Area landscape through the medium of panoramic imagery. I See It Now uses video images arranged in a 360 degree montage of a Bay Area day, offering viewers a unique sense of how we move through the landscape of our lived experiences. The day unfolds, a journey is taken, and memory is created. Even as time is marked by sunrise and sunset, and land is bounded by water, time and space meld into one. As we traverse Bay Area schools, intersections, mountaintops and bridges, what could go unseen becomes vital: a stone in the morning sun at Pacifica’s Shelter Cove, a corner store in the Mission District, goats on the side of the railway tracks in the Bay View District, or a lone dancer moving along San Francisco’s waterfront.  I see it now.

Influenced by lyrics with the same title:  

I See It Now

That year in Oakland High
When I was seventeen
The grass from there to San Jose
Was high and cool and green
I see it now

Too brash and young was I
To know what time could mean
The old acacia lawn cut down
Was felt but never seen
I see it now
 
That world I knew is lost to me
Loves have come and gone
 The years go racing by
I live as best I can
And all at once I know it means the making of a man
I see it now 

--Wilder/Engvick