Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belgium.
Feral Trade coffee delivered to Nova Cinema in Brussels by agent working for the Cube Cinema FTBTC tour of europe, 1st Leg.
This is a list of Cinemas on the tour in chrono order.
Nova Cinema, Brussels.
Kino-Im-Sprengel, Hannover.
B-Movie, Hamburg.
Regenbogenkino, Berlin.
Husets Biograf, Copenhagen.
No reason to post this other than that I love this poster.
Nice acquisition, portable 35mm by Microcine, Italian. Planning on using it for Vi image/projection on 6th June at qujunktions Dark Matter event. Its meant to be portable and the handle suggests that one person could lift it up. One person can NOT lift it up and its the hardest to lace up 35mm projector Ive ever worked on.
An everso slightly (digitally) tweaked photo of a cameraless film test in progress.
After 17 years I finally got my 1996 film Crow / Pylon Configuration digitised. It is going to be screened at Kino-Im-Sprengel In Hannover next week. Here are some frame grabs. Back in 96 there was only Standard definition. Now though HD has really helped the case for film because I can scan the original A and B rolls of super8 and it will look ‘pretty awesome’. The sound really holds up.
I’m getting it translated into German but this is proving difficult. They don’t appear to have the flexibility in language to make space for the absurd or ridiculous, or the grammatical willingness to speak what is impossible or non-sensical. Any decent French or Spanish tranlsators out there email me.
If you could be bothered, with all the pressing demands of modern life you can watch it all here. https://www.nachleben.org.uk/skomer/crow-pylon-configuration/
Ive been borrowing Nagras from the BBC in Bristol (Thanks go to Iain Hunter) for recent projects involving using tape to record and playback sound but have finally acquired a 4:2 for myself. This will now let me further research several projects that can only use this kind of technology. Essentially an exceptionally well engineered portable sound recording device.
Did the 4th Film Jam at the Cube Cinema on Saturday as part of the Hendo nights that go on there.
We last did film jams over 12 – 14 years ago back in the early days of the Cube. Mega thanks to Rod Maclachlan for coming and jamming.
Had time on Tuesday to reinstate the optical printer to its last assembly. Most functions run ok except the camera. My electronics engineer Kyle is going to help redesign all the circuit controllers so we can expand and enhance the functions of this machine. It was cobbled together to allow blow up printing from S16mm to 35mm. With some extra parts we can build in all sorts of new things.
A piece of old scrap I bought online actually looks like an ingenious 35mm step printer with very similar movement to the big Matipo machine built by Debrie. Its meant for very short lengths of film and might have been adapted for use as an analysis projector at some point. Anyway another project to add to the Lab list.
Pleased to be included in Magic + Dreams 12,000 Seconds cassette release with Hacker Farm on the other side.
Not seen the actual tapes yet but you can preview some tracks here
