http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog weirdo-art-films Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:22:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en accidental creepy.Download nightmare: a film doodle by scott amos http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=114 An old educational film. Damaged. Something to appease my guilt. (I hear that the City of Victoria is dealing with the problem) I hope.Download drain: a video blurb by scott amos http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=113 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 ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=112 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 ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=111 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 ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=110 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. ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=109 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 ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=108 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. ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=100 I'm not sure if it's good or bad that I keep finding little films all over the place. This one was on my server, ready to be podcast, but somehow slipped through the cracks for a few months. I made it in Dawson City in the spring for part of ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=107 This is my new Steenbeck (it's on loan) I cleaned it up a bit, replaced the bulbs, and rigged up the sockets to work better (only one preview window was working when I got it, now both are) The sound didn't work anymore, so..... after nerding out a bit and fixing the ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=105 Went on a trip to Toronto in June, to spend a week at Phil Hoffman's Film Farm. What an inspiring place. Came back to Vic with a new fascination with 16mm, learned how to turn a Steenbeck into a contact printer (Thanks to Josh Bonnetta), and how to double and ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=106   I saw the film "RIP: A Remix Manifesto" by Brett Gaylor at this year's Victoria Film Festival.  In the spirit of the film , I pirated parts of the film onto 16mm Black and White film with my bolex, then hand-processed, tinted and toned it, then composited it digitally. The soundtrack ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=104 Download mechanical garden: an experiment by scott amos It is a flurry of format changes. It was shot on Super 8 in black and white and hand processed, then digitized, composited and coloured with final cut pro. The sound is a whole other story.  It starts with a new toy. Slim Sandy gave ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=103 Back from Dawson City now, still trying to catch up on everything I left behind in April. The "Experiment" workshop at MediaNet is starting this weekend, and I'm still trying to get everything ready. I think there are still a couple spots left in the workshop if anyone wants to take ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=102 Been out of touch for a couple weeks, lots of things happening, I'm in Dawson City right now, doing a residency at the Klondike Institute of Arts and Culture, and had a screening at the Dawson City Short Film Festival a couple weeks ago. I love it here. Fantastic people. Performed with ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=101 WARNING - THIS FILM MAY CAUSE SEIZURES - PLEASE DO NOT WATCH IF YOU ARE EPILEPTIC This started as an experiment with 16mm Black and white film. one frame of black, and one frame of white, alternating at 24 frames per second. When it's switched to 30 frames per second to ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=99 This is a video made from still images. I've been thinking about the idea that film can be experience and not just documentary or narrative, so this is an exercise to see if I could create an experience and place with only stills and sound. None of the stills are ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=98 Another film made for this year's "My Victoria." Abstract 16mm black and white, tinted, toned and layered. The words were an afterthought, because the film had to have something to do with Victoria. And I just started a twitter account. You can find it here: http://twitter.com/oilyfilmsDownload amuse, an abstract film piece http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=97 This is a short film I made with the help of Daniel Lombardi for the Victoria Film Festival's "My Victoria" Competition this year. I submitted it late, so didn't end up in the competition part, but it was a good excuse to make a film, and to play around with ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=96 This is an abstract piece, shot on 16mm colour film, and transferred with an early-80's telecine, that lags a little with the colour channels. I think it's quite obvious what it actually is, but visually interesting nonetheless. A part of the journey. David Parfit made the soundtrack. You can find ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=90 Another piece of the seeming endless primordial soup reel. Very textural. The sound is a little obnoxious (I made it)Download Primordial Soup (Part 4) http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=89 An abstract splattering of colours, made by dissolving layers of  the emulsion with chemicals. Music by Mike Wolske.Download Exploding Olive, a short experiment by Scott Amos http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=87 I'd love to say that this piece has some meaning, like it's "an exploration of identity" or something...but really, I was just feeling the urge to fingerpaint. It was done with cheap oil paints in a few minutes, but took a couple months in my damp workshop to dry. For ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=86 WARNING! - the sound is a little painful at times. Another clip of Primordial Soup. The original runs somewhere around 20 minutes, so I've just been pulling out a minutes here and there for podcasts. Sitting through the 20 minute version would take some work (or a serious buzz) . A ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=85 Over the last few months, I had convinced myself that I was too busy with grad school to get any filmmaking done. And I believed it...until I started looking through my basement, and found all the little bits and pieces that I'd made and forgotten about. I'll try to post ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=84 This is a photogram piece, on black and white 35mm film. It was made during a workshop with Kerry Laitala during this year's AntiMatter Film Festival, using electrical components, nuts, bolts, screws, and a mini cassette tape. The soundtrack was made on my circuit-bent Realistic keyboard.Download synthetic resin: a photogram ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=83 This week's film is  the video for MeatDraw' s "Old World."   We shot it at the beginning of September, with the donated time and talents of dozens of people. It is  one continuous shot, and travels from earth to space and back. Quite an ambitious undertaking, and very different than ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=82 ahhh. scribbling. mindless and meditative doodles. pencil crayons on paper. The soundtrack was made with a circuit-bent late-80's Realistic keyboard. I took it apart, and poked around at it a bit, wired up a few extra things, and now it makes interesting painful noises, so I recorded it, then chopped ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=81 There's something about duct-taping magnifying lenses to my camera that i really dig. maybe it's the soft, dreamy edges that everything gets, maybe it's how mysterious and different everything looks. This was a clip of colour 16mm that I slowed down, and was fortunate to have David Parfit create a ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=80 Went to Mayne Island last weekend for a wedding, and filmed some things around the island with the bolex. As luck would have it, either the bolex was empty, or had the wrong kind of film in it whenever I stumbled into something I wanted to shoot. So I used ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=79 Another installment of the film-a-week-project. Colour 16mm. Close-up lenses duct-taped to the camera. surreal textures. dreamscape. Download Menzisii. A short film experiment by Scott Amos Lots of other projects in the works, and back to UVic in a week. Seems like there aren't enough hours. Doing a residency at CineVic right now, ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=78 It has been a busy summer trying to keep up with everything, but a few more weekly film exercises are getting finished up. This one is called "oxide" and is a snippit of colour 16mm film. I've been playing around with extension tubes and close-up lenses duct-taped to a Bolex. ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=77 My Bolex died. In the middle of a shoot. This is the last thing it recorded. I'm calling it "Swansong." My friend Gerald Saul, who has been making a film-a-week this year as well (and, unlike me, is keeping up with it) did a series of films called "How to be ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=76 An experiment with acrylic paints, india inks and drain cleaner on an old 16mm film (I think there's some dog hair in there too) Download Primordial Soup pt.1 The soundtrack was made by Clifford Dunn in Seattle, who makes some crazy experimental soundscape stuff with a flute and processor (among other things, I'm ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=75 This month at Open Space: The Deceleration Chamber. The Deceleration Chamber is concerned with two entangled ideas: the elasticity of time—especially slow time—and how time is specifically experienced when one is away from familiar surroundings: on tour, traveling or on vacation. Encountering the unfamiliar, being lost or disorientated affects how time ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=74 Here it is folks. A new music video for Hank and Lily's "Xanadu." The song is from there newly-released album "North America." Of course, it stars both Hank and Lily. I love this song! Download "Xanadu" by Hank and Lily They're doing some touring this summer through Ontario and Alberta, and you ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=73 And we've hit the halfway point in the year, so this should be podcast #26...but it's not. It's only podcast #21. what can I say? It has been a lot of work...and I've still got some catching up to do. There are a couple pieces that I never posted, because ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=72 Along the same lines as "Flypaper", the last podcast. This time, I collected bits and pieces from around the garden, dried them out, broke them up, and taped them to a strip of 16mm film. The results aren't as unique as flypaper, but I had to give it a try. ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=71 Download Flypaper, an experimental film by Scott Amos This new film is for the "Seek Cover" show tonight at The Project. The idea behind Seek Cover is to create a new artwork (performance, painting, anything goes) based on an existing artwork. I made a film, inspired by Stan Brakhage's "Mothlight." I ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=94 As the days get longer and the end of June approaches, I realize that I'm more-than-a-little-behind in the film-a-week project. Spent the last week doing JumpCuts for the Victoria Film Festival, and other projects have come up, burying my pet project. For now. I'm still working on it, and a ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=69 The newer pieces are still in the works. I was away in Vancouver and Whistler this week, collecting new footage, but had to bring the film back home for developing. So, I'm putting up an older piece, called Memory Lapse. It won the "Best Short Fiction" award at the Lausanne Underground ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=67 [YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llLCRhP6UPY] Made this one for the Victoria Film Festival's "My Victoria" Film contest. They wanted a one-minute Victoria-centric film. While wandering around the immerweb, trying to figure out what to do for the film, I stumbled into the the raciest historical tidbit about my quaint little town. It's about an architect ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=66 This started as an old educational film called "I am Joe's Spine." And then I wrecked it a bunch. I buried myself in my basement lab, and listened continuously to the new Run Chico Run CD that I got. It's called "Rocket Surgery" and it's fantastic. Thankfully, the band has ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=63 Round number next in the film-a-week project. This is some 16mm film that I found in my basement, that I had shot, but never processed. Now that I can look at it, although I shot it for no particular reason, it seems to have some meaning to it. It's a little ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=62 This is a little experiment I did, making inkblots with clear acrylic and india ink. I pressed as many copies as I could, then took photographs of them, and lined them up, overlayed and composited them. I threw a little motion blur on them too, to smooth out everything. Some ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=61 A fear and worry of mine. On celluloid. Shot on 16mm film and hand-processed. Initially created and screened on 16mm with live music performed by Rozalind MacPhail for MediaNet's One-Minute Challenge. This is a digitized version with a re-recorded soundtrack. *edit* - This film has been removed from from the podcast ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=93 While in Dawson City, I managed to catch The Burning Hell at Diamond-Tooth Gerties, and they were nice enough to let me film them. Fun band. The song is called "The Second Cigarette" and is on their album "Happy Birthday." I believe you can purchase it through weewerk records. The ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=59 I filmed this one on trip back from Dawson City. It was an Air North flight from Whitehorse to Vancouver. I filmed it on colour film and must've botched the processing...it's all washy-looking. I was daydreaming on the plane. There's more footage from Dawson that I haven't figured out what to ... http://www.oilyfilms.com/blog/?p=58