Here is a brief plan guide to the graphic optical camera I am building. In simplest terms it is a rostrum camera pointing down at an area for flat art work. If the correct camera gate, in this case a full 35mm gate, is placed in the camera then the area below to be photographed INCLUDES the area occupied by …
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So after finally setting the lens stage and getting the camera drive working I’ve been conducting tons of tests to ascertain exposure settings for different stocks, processes and target outcomes. The first is really to get a good method established for printing negatives to PF2 and 3302 using accurate & repeatable D97 processing. As the original materials I have to …
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The beginning and end of Disbanded Cinema 1 : the remains of something broken down or destroyed digging through the storm’s debris in search of survivors sifted through the debris of his flooded house. 2 geology : an accumulation of fragments of rock. 3 : something discarded : rubbish picking up debris after the parade. I am hoping to hold …
Continue Reading...Experimenting with a set up that will allow novel, experimental and new ways of producing optical sound tracks on 35mm and 16mm.
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This subject has a deep fascination for me both as history and as a practical art. This attempt at a more long form post hopefully works and I will be coming back to it when I can with new research, results of practical experiments and other readings. Reading Craig Barron and Mark Cotta Vaz’s (1) great book about matte …
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Im trying to devise a way of describing flicker that is mathematically accurate. Frame rates as we understand them for example 24fps or 18fps are only one aspect of the whole picture delivery system. Firstly, often a frame is delivered twice, or three times so this produces a different phonomemalogical figure, say 48fps. But this figure only counts the …
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It may seem a trivial or superfluous thing but here is a tin design (V1) for film cans that I am making for the Archive of films I am collecting / making / ? The lower label allows both an extant record to have its accession date registered OR if it is a work that has been produced then its …
Continue Reading...Here are those numbers again in their roles as light and dark. Both 108 and 72 have interesting cultural meanings which you can look up for yourself, my only advice being to tread carefully but open yourself to all kinds of wonder. So, the magic number building block for the experiment to reinstate a virtual blade into digital versions of …
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Can anyone identify this film? Just a few frame scans for some short lengths of nitrate film that were found at the Curzon Cinema in Clevedon. I’ll be doing all the rest of this clip and more over the coming months. I can’t hope to get accurate colour reproduction and these grabs are the best jpgs that the camera can …
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I’ll be doing these studio tours during the Cinema Rediscovered Film Festival in late July at watershed (mainly). They are tours designed to verbalise what I am doing on several levels. In this regard they are also performances and presentations about ideas, processes, thinking and working collaboratively. There is an assumed ‘intrigue’ or ‘fascination’ with machines that often forms …
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