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Finally finished the Ballgag N’ Chain Gang video this weekend. Fun stuff. Kevin Bacon makes a guest appearance.

Everything is Better with Bacon

Once again, Puente Theatre and CineVic are putting together Scene + Heard. Come check it out this week at Metro Theatre, where films will be accompanying live storytellers. “Between,” a story by Rob Hunter with an interactive video by me, is being performed along with 5 other stories/films with new musical interludes by Oliver Swain. Fun times. Tickets $15.

Friday Feb 25, 8pm

Saturday, Feb 26th 2pm and 8pm

Sunday, Feb 27, 8pm

Kate Cino from artopenings.ca interviewed some of us and wrote about the show on her website here. There is a pic from “Between” and a video of Ollie’s new music there. Go.

accidental creepy.

 nightmare: a film doodle by scott amos [0:51] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

An old educational film. Damaged. Something to appease my guilt.

(I hear that the City of Victoria is dealing with the problem)

I hope.

 drain: a video blurb by scott amos [1:07] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A couple months ago, I was asked to document an event. I did. And then I played with the footage and created this short video-doodle. Since the doodle misrepresents the event that the documentation was from, I won’t mention the name of the event here (although it is in the credits of the film) – Take that google spiders.

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 re-noise: a video doodle by scott amos [1:00] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

If you’re in Calgary this weekend, check out the $100 Film Festival at the Plaza Theatre - March 4-6, 2010

“Three days of short film, on film. Experience the magic of cinema with short film screenings, performances and parties. Full program now available on the website. This year’s program features special performances and workshops by Amanda Dawn Christie!”

A 16mm film I made a couple years ago called “Alone” will be screening. Fun times. Wish I could be there. Amanda Dawn Christie’s work is fantastic.

Here’s a photogram film doodle, called “fixit,” with a noisy soundtrack.

 fixit - a film doodle by Scott Amos [1:19] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This weekend, check out CineVic and Puente Theatre’s Scene and Heard Redux at the Metro theatre, where films will be accompanying live storytelling. A film and story collaboration between myself and Rob Hunter will be screening on both Saturday and Sunday evenings, as well as films by Grace Salez, Maureen Bradley, Denver Jackson, Mark Borowski and Rachel Moore to accompany stories by Susu Ma, Jennifer Ferris, Raji Basi, Janice Valdez, and Paulina Grainger.

On an entirely separate note, this is a double-exposed toned film print that I was playing around with in the summer just after Phil Hoffman’s Film Farm. It was shot on High-contrast Kodak 3378E optical print stock and hand-processed.

 Frantic Blue Farm (with a hair) [0:38] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is an experiment I found a couple days ago, some tests I did with tints and tones a while ago. I’m calling it tintonetest, for a lack of something more meaningful. It was masked with paint markers, then toned with Berg’s tones and then the paint mask was removed. other parts were double-toned which created a posterizing effect (because I used hardening fixer, I believe.)

 tintonetest: a short film experiment by scott amos [1:18] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is a short film, shot on 16mm optical sound stock. Parts are shot close-up with extension tubes, other parts are photogrammed. It is made with bicycle gears that were graciously donated to me by a local bikeshop called Bicycleitis.

The sound was made with a circuitbent keyboard, and I believe that David Parfit made the sound, and recorded it (I just mulched it up with the computer) – It was a stray file on my computer called untitled10.wav. I think it was David, but it may’ve been me. We were making noise in the basement one day. It’s all a blur. Apologies for being disorganized.

 gears: a short experimental film by Scott Amos [1:46] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

And, another random clip I found, floating around the server. Not sure I remember making it, but here it is, so I must’ve. It a test of tints and tones, and posterizing. I believe it’s the hardener in the fix that is changing how the tones react with the emulsion. This is slowed down a bunch, digitally. And I should really give a thanks to Hank and Lily, who let me mangle their beautiful song – it’s from their album called North America, and completely unrecognizable in this clip.

 Ritual, a short film experiment by Scott AMos [2:29] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download