User:Aitantv/Handmade Film

Expanded/Absolute Cinema - 01/02/22

• Jordan Belson - organic, optical lens effects; thinking of the analogue legacy/conventions that influences digital post-production workflows e.g. layering, blending, compositing, etc.; also uses optical soundtracks; imagine doing the photogram/lithogram process but creating moving image spectacles
• the projector can also move; it can be dynamic; frame rates don't have to be stuck at 24
• Guy Sherwin - Man with Mirror (1976-2011); ongoing performance piece; film of artist looking into mirror projected and refilmed onto artist with mirror decades later; master of manipulating time and space; profound yet simple appreciation of the fundamental component of cinema language of film; almost a dance choreography have to remember by heart. 'Paper Landscape' reveals the artist ripping paper projected on transparent screen which the artist revelas by painting it white; again a meditation on collapsing past-present into a single action; dialogue with with past self; echoing one another revealing the landscape; cuts the screen at the end at the point of vanishing point. Dialogue between memory and present. Physically going beyong the frame. The basic elements of cinema offer a lot of dexterity.
• What are the forms of your work: e.g. there could be a series of presentations on a single topic; go in depth into an idea; you have to go deeper to see what others have done before; how does it form a dialogue with whats come before
• Malcolm LeGrice - Horror Film (1972/2014) : involved with London Filmmakers coorprative; miming through projection; going beyond the strait expected projection; multiple color filters on projector.
• Anthony McCall Line Describing a Cone - simple geometry filmed on 16mm to get true blacks and whites; projected in black space it creates 3D sculptural objects
• The Whitney Brothers - synaesthesia - grandads of motion graphics - Vertigo title sequence

Structural Materialist Film - 01/02/22

• repetitive rhythm to create structure; duration; actions punctuate the rhythm; without narrative how do you structure a film? What is the choreograhy.
• Michael Snow - e.g. Back & Forth, Wavelength, Le Region Centrale (1971) (180mins) continuous shot; Solar Breath (2002)
• Andy Warhol, man sleeping,
• Stan Brackhage - Mothlight (1963); Garden of Earthy Delights (1981); Film as a tangible medium - not just an illusion
• Tony Conrad - make art happy exciting joyful energetic
• Hollis Frampton Nostalgia (1971)
• Peter Tcherkassky, Outer Space - the protagonist is fighting the basic elements of film; the struggle between the media; visitation from another dimension - directs and destroys his own film -

Visual References

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC6VCV1ay1w