Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Gossamer Conglomerate

Now that I have my technical wires uncrossed, I plan to post one of my 16mm films here every day for the next few weeks. Although the compression looks much better than I thought it would, I do have to take a moment to say that this is not the preferred format for my films. They are best seen in their original 16mm format in a darkened theatre.

Well, not all of us live near an experimental film venue, nor do we have finances at our disposal to rent film prints from places like Canyon Cinema, The Film-maker's Coop, CFMDC (Canadian films) Light Cone, or Le Collectif Jeune Cinéma (though you can click on any of these if you do- they have many great films in their collections). I decided to make my films available online, too. You can also subscribe to my podcast (you'll need iTunes) or check out my blip.tv channel.

Okay, enough. Here is my first film, "Gossamer Conglomerate" (click the image to play- note: this film is silent):


This film was made by filming cuts of splicing tape placed upon decayed film through polarized filters. Click on the title of this post if you want to know more.

6 comments:

Squish said...

I've neglecting visiting for so long, now I have all this sweet stuff to look at! You inspire me to put MY films on my site... when I finish them :P

"They are best seen in their original 16mm format in a darkened theatre." - Quoting the most obvious thing anyone's ever said, EVER.

sea dot said...

We should have a vlog festival blog-a-thon! That'd be fun...

...Obvious only to people who even know what 16mm film is! I was once told that a recent film student here wanted to know how to play a 16mm film in a VCR ;)

Squish said...

What's a vlog?

And i just recently got into indy filmaking so 16mm is my friend :D

sea dot said...

vlog= video blog. freevlog.org has some great tutorials for conversions and posting and whatnot. I can't stick to one thing, so my blog (vlog) is all over the place!

16mm is my best friend! I absolutely love it. I've shot just about everything on it (though I do enjoy dabbling in video, as well, I've found that if it's not HD, it just doesn't look that great)...

Squish said...

Sea Dot! I don't have (or want) Quicktime. Is there another format or somewhere else I can see this film!?

sea dot said...

Yeah, if you go to my "show" at blip.tv I also have them all available in flash video (.flv)

I'm also trying to get a reasonable .avi file made of all of them. I will make an announcement on my blog as soon as they are all available.