Archive for August, 2008

menziesii

Posted in 16mm, 2008 film-a-week on August 26th, 2008
Another installment of the film-a-week-project. Colour 16mm. Close-up lenses duct-taped to the camera. surreal textures. dreamscape.
 
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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, working on the Steenbeck to finish off a short film about D’Arcy Island sponsored by the NFB’s Filmmaker’s Assistance Program. Spent the last few days (and the next few also) gearing up for a MeatDraw video that will be shot next week. Four minutes. One continuous shot. From earth to space and back spanning over 3 days. Quite an endeavour, but fun problem-solving. We built the asteroids, clouds and stars yesterday, next we’re modding a red wagon into a rocketship, and building satellites. Busy and exciting times.

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oxide

Posted in 16mm, 2008 film-a-week on August 25th, 2008

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. Some interesting surreal textures when you look at the world so closely. The soundtrack is courtesy of Mike Wolske.

 
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Swansong

Posted in 16mm, 2008 film-a-week on August 17th, 2008

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 an Experimental Filmmaker”

I like the idea, so I made a list that accompanies this week’s film

  • How to be an Experimental Filmmaker
  • Step #1 - Use old, antiquated equipment
  • Step #2  - Get professionals to be your on-screen talent. Make sure they have flown in from another country
  • Step #3 - Forget to close the gate on the camera. Blame the old equipment. (see Step #1)
  • Step #4  Have the camera completely break down half-way through the shoot (see Step #1)
  • Step #5 - Tint and tone the blurry footage and release it on the internet
  • Step #6 - Pretend that the film ended up exactly as you had planned.

 
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The ghostly image is Carly Berrett, an incredible modern dancer from Utah. We met during MediaNet’s Dance for the Camera Workshop a couple weeks ago. Lots of fun. Embarrassing that half of the footage didn’t work out.  

Fortunately, most of the other footage worked out and will be made into a different film, the film I had initially intended to do (without some of the parts.) Still a lot of post production to do on that, so in the meantime, here is the final film that ran through my Bolex. I find it mesmerizing.

Mike Wolske made the soundtrack, but I played around with it a bit.

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Primordial Soup (pt.1)

Posted in 16mm, 2008 film-a-week on August 12th, 2008

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)

 
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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 sure)…Check out his website: http://www.clifforddunnmusic.com

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