Xmas polaroid effect

Snow crosses out of a held print and keeps falling across a whole warm room. a wide shot of a person sitting by a fireplace holding an instant photo print with a thick white border, the snowy field inside the print is moving, and the snow crosses the white border and keeps falling across the whole room, settling on the rug, the mantel and the shoulders of the person while the fire keeps burning, the print still small and flat in the hand, camera easing back from the chair

A row of pegged prints each hold a different moving winter scene. a wide shot of a row of instant photo prints with thick white borders pegged on a line at a night market stall, each print holding a different moving winter scene, a tram passing, a choir breathing steam, a bell swinging, the prints swaying gently on the line as flat objects while the scenes inside their borders run independently, stall lamps warm above, camera tracking slowly along the line

A small figure inside the border walks forward and climbs out onto the hand. a hand holds an instant photo print with a thick white border in a dim hallway, inside the border a coat-wrapped figure walks toward the front of the frame, grows to fill the border, then steps over the white edge and stands full size in the hallway as the print goes empty and shows only bare snow, the empty print still in the hand, camera holding on the hand then tilting up

Two prints lie side by side and only the left one is moving. two instant photo prints with thick white borders lie side by side on a wooden porch step under a bare bulb, the right print is a frozen still of a snowy garden, the left print shows the same garden with snow falling, a gate swinging and a dog crossing, the two identical in framing and colour so the difference between the still print and the moving print is the whole shot, top down camera

A blank grey print resolves into a snowy street that keeps moving inside the border. a hand holds a blank grey instant photo print with a thick white border over a kitchen table under a low pendant lamp, the grey clears from the centre outward into a snowy street at dusk, and the street inside the border keeps moving after it settles, snow falling and a lit window flickering while the print itself stays a still flat object in the hand, camera pushing slowly in on the border, no readable text anywhere

The scene inside a dashboard-propped print loops while the print never moves. an instant photo print with a thick white border wedged against a car dashboard at a snowy lay-by, headlight glow on the print, inside the border a distant skater crosses a frozen pond, turns and crosses back in a loop, the ice glittering, while the print, the dashboard and the windscreen stay completely still so the only motion on screen is inside the white border, slow handheld drift

A boxful of blank prints develops one by one into moving winter scenes. a wide shot of a person tipping a shoebox of blank grey instant photo prints with thick white borders across an attic floor in cold daylight, each print clearing from the centre outward into a different moving winter scene, a sledge run, a window being wiped, a fir being carried, the prints lying flat and still while the scenes inside the borders play, camera rising slowly over the spread

Flakes inside the print cross the border and fall into the room in front of it. an instant photo print with a thick white border propped on a windowsill beside a frosted pane, the pine wood inside the print is snowing, and single flakes drift out over the white border and fall through the warm air of the room in front of the print, landing on the sill and melting, the print held still and sharp so the crossing reads as the effect, locked camera at the height of the sill

A figure steps from the print into the same street the print was shot on. a wide shot on a quiet snowy street at night, a hand holds an instant photo print with a thick white border up toward camera, the coated figure inside the border turns, walks forward and climbs out over the white edge onto the actual street, stands in the snow at full size and walks away leaving prints in the fresh fall, the emptied photo still held up, locked wide camera

A torch beam sweeps a print and the image inside brightens into motion. a torch beam crosses an instant photo print with a thick white border resting on a cabin bunk, and wherever the beam lands the flat image inside the border lifts into motion, a lantern swinging and snow blowing across a porch, going still again as the beam moves off, so the moving and the still parts of the same print sit side by side, the border staying pure white, close camera following the beam