OILYFILMS

I went to work in some film today with bleach and a toothbrush in the backyard. Here’s a sloppy little clip.

Unfortunately, it didn’t make it through before it got eaten by the projector. I should’ve seen it coming. The only working 16mm projector I have right now is a piece of garbage, it’s an awkward Singer easy-load one that is more hassle than it’s worth. I guess they were trying to make it user-friendly, and failed miserably. You have to take it apart to manually feed the film through. I think I’ll have to retire it, it seems to chew up more film than it plays.
I guess it’s time to hunt down some belts and a bulb to fix up the old Bell & Howell that I started taking apart a while back.

And the experiments continue.

Loaded up a bunch of jars with 16mm film, random chunks of an old educational film called “Civilisations,” and filled each of the jars with random liquids/solids.

Compost, pickled peppers, hotsauce, coffee, urine, Diet Coke, green curry, dish soap…and the list goes on.

They’re out in the yard, sunbathing. In a year, I’ll break into them, and see what happened.