Hasta La Motion!

A follow up to my first short for Vogue Magazine. Starring Alicia Vikander & Anna Wintour.

‘Films to Break Projectors’ glues, scrapes and splices 35mm, 16mm and 8mm film to create unprojectable celluloid collages. Reanimating the material reveals the colour music within and traces of ambiguous narratives that emerge from the complex loops. image – iloobia sound – iloobia / dissolving path cinema iloobia 2016 awards: Encounters 2017 BEST OF BRITISH ANIMATION AWARD BUSHO Award 2017 BEST EXPERIMENTAL BUSHO Student Jury Prize BEST EXPERIMENTAL screenings: Flatpack Festival – Birmingham, UK – April 2017 BUSHO Festival – Budapest, Hungary – Sept 2017 Encounters Film Festival – Bristol, UK – Sept 2017 BFI London Film Festival – UK – Oct 2017 Edinburgh Short Film Festival – UK – Nov 2017 Cinecity – Brighton, UK – Nov 2017 Euroshorts Festival – Poland – Nov 2017 Analogica 7 – Bolzano / Merano, Italy – Nov 2017 FIVA 07 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – Dec 2017 London Experimental Film Festival – UK – Dec 2017 Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival – Edinburgh – Jan 2018 London Short Film Festival – UK – Jan 2018 11th British Shorts Film Festival – Berlin – Jan 2018 Analogica Selection 7 Tour – San Francisco – Jan – 2018 Vancouver Island Short Film Fest – Canada – Feb 2018 Short Waves Festival – Poland – March 2018 Cardiff Animation Nights – Wales – March 2018 Approaching the process of making films in a literal sense, ‘Films to Break Projectors’ glues, scrapes and splices 35mm, 16mm, standard and super 8 film to create defective and unprojectable celluloid collages. These are hand edited and constructed from a combination of self shot footage, orphaned material and frames from a 35mm trailer of Get Shorty retrieved from an abandoned projection room. After hand editing the film collages, each strip is scanned at very hi-resolution, frame by frame, and reassembled digitally, so that even though in a conventional sense they are defective and unprojectable as films, this process allows the celluloid to reanimate and reveal its potential motion through digital stop motion. As there are multiple gauges combined in each strip, a single loop can be calibrated for 35mm, 16mm/8mm or super 8mm – each configuration giving a distinctly different dynamic to the moving images. Considering each strip as visual or colour music is of primary consideration during the films hand editing and construction. Shifts in motion, contrast, colour, rhythm and the juxtaposition of action within the filmstrips alongside one another are all taken into account, akin to creating a musical score. With the physical length of the strips allowing an inherent duration and rhythm to exist within them, (an aspect emphasised when they are looping), and with each one being a different length to one another, the tempo and nuance of the visual music is constantly shifting. The project is inspired in part by visiting innumerable projection booths over the past few years at film festivals and cinemas across Europe, North America and the UK. Again and again I would witness an absent space where the 35mm projector once stood, where only traces of these virtually extinct machines remained.

NYC Ballet Art Series presents GERONIMO Production Company: Ways & Means Producer: Laure Salgon DP: Matthew Chaung Voice: Dolly Wells

A Look at The Craft Behind The Making of the Movie. Nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, Dunkirk is Christopher Nolan’s sweeping, emotional epic. Dunkirk opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea and home almost within sight, they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in. The story unfolds on land, sea and air. RAF Spitfires engage the enemy in the skies above the Channel, trying to protect the defenseless troops below. Meanwhile, hundreds of small boats manned by both civilians and military mount a desperate rescue effort, risking their lives in a race against time to save even a fraction of their army. When 400,000 men couldn’t get home, home came for them.

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