2 months of madness
Posted in 16mm, 8mm, Festival, Music Video on October 3rd, 2007
wow.
Finally sent “Scratch” off to be transferred to Beta yesterday, after a few sleepless nights of tweaking and polishing. Scratch is the Bravo-funded short film I’ve been working on for the past few month, the biggest project I’ve done. I’ve been asked a number of times “What’s it about?” and, still, the only answer I have is “You’ll have to see it.” We shot it on 16mm and old expired super 8 film. it’s got line animation, scratch animation, and chemical manipulation. It’s got childhood trauma, gore, and crossdressing. What else can I say?
You can read an article about it here.
I had the pleasure of working with a great crew, am eternally indebted to all of them. On the left is a production photo from Vince Lombardi, That’s the cinematographer, Cyrus Block, and I’m looking through the camera.
Coming soon to a screen near you:
Both “Grass” and “Sometimes” will be screening on October 8th at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle as part of their Local Sightings - Experimental Methods Screening. Hopefully I can talk my way out of work for a couple days to make it down there.
Back in July, “Grass” screened at CineVic’s Infin8 screening, and just a few days ago, “Sometimes” was shortlisted for Best Short, and screened in Australia at the “First and Last Experimental Film Festival”
A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure of working with the lovely and talented Miss Lily Fawn, filming a silent film for the Victoria Symphony’s Reel Music Show that happens in January. Four different composers will be chosen to write a score for the film (titled “Lily”) and four other composers will be scoring a short film by Anne Marie Fleming. The films will be screening in January with the compositions played by the Victoria Symphony. Exciting stuff. On the right is a still from the film, shot on B&W 16mm and hand-processed.
Met Gerald Saul this past weekend, he’s a filmmaker and professor at the University of Regina, who has made a tonne of great films, and shares my fascination with hand-processing and small-gauge home movies. Nice to know I’m not alone.
And, my two month hiatus from blogging started off with the “Dance for the Camera” Workshop at MediaNet. Intense ten hour days of tech support (and I didn’t even make a film.) Lots of great people, and some stellar works at the final screening.
My fingers are sore.
