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Alright, we're keeping up on the film-a-week. This one is called "colourhunter." It's the first roll of expired Kodak colour film that I've shot and hand-processed. I just wandered around yesterday with a macro-lens taped onto my camera, collecting colours. After all the warnings I received about processing colour film, I didn't really expect to get any images by the end of it.
Now I know why everyone I talked to about hand-processing colour filmed winced before saying "good luck."
It didn't go so well, the colours are all over the place...it looks "interesting," I guess...too put it nicely...It's an experiment...at least some pictures showed up...but the funny part about the experiment is that, after being told that colour processing is ultra temperature sensitive, the best results I had were after I stopped checking the temperature...
Because of the orange film base, I had to do the inversion and a little colour correction in Final Cut.
The music was made by Rozalind MacPhail, and was her first experiment with bansuri, recorded live at Cafe Nostalgica in Ottawa. Film by Scott Amos, www.oilyfilms.com.
This is a loop I made this week for the Victoria Film Festival's Pre-Fest Bash. It is made from an old 16mm Educational movie, altered with chemicals and hand-painted frame-by-frame. Paul Wilson designed the logo, and I put some of Mike Wolske's music on the web version. I did a little digital colour correction, to keep with the festival's pink colour scheme this year.
Hopefully the YouTube video compression won't mangle it too badly, but you'll get the idea. Inspired by Brakhage (of course). Created by Scott Amos. 2008, week 2 of the film-a-week project.
Week 3 of the Film-a-Week Project.
This is a short film excercise called "Tomorrow." It's 24 seconds long, and was filmed on a low-end Sony miniDV camera, using the slow-shutter in a dark room. It started as an experiment with the trails of a cigarette heater captured using slow shutter, and I tried my best to spell out letters, but it just wouldn't turn out how I wanted. The flashes and abstract lines were just distracting, so I re-filmed it with writing on the cigarette and kept it simple...There's nothing thing new to say about smoking, but I tried...Mike Wolske and Darryl Tamney made the original music, and I tweaked it a little. www.oilyfilms.com 2008
Here it is - moon over sombrio - exercise #4 of the 2008 film-a-week project. It was shot on 16mm Black and White film on Sombrio Beach. I spent this afternoon in the basement, toning it with yellow, brown and blue, and am quite pleased with the results. It's a little slow, but I find it mesmerizing. There were no digital tricks - this is what the actual film looks like (well, I inverted it with the computer, because I shot it on neg film, and slowed it down a bit) - but all of the detail and texture and colour is on the film itself. I'm thinking about sending it to the lab to get an actual print made....we'll see...film by: Scott Amos, music by: Mike Wolske, www.oilyfilms.com 2008
A short film made for the 2008 "My Victoria" competition at the Victoria Film Festival.
Participants were asked to create a 1 minute video about what living in the Capital means to them, how it affects or influences their lives, or what they feel is unique to living here.
The film stars Darryl Tamney, Ishe Barrett and Jon Davis. The Music is by Rozalind MacPhail, from her album "Edgework."
Week 6 of the film-a-week project. Shot on a Bolex and hand-processed by Scott Amos. www.oilyfilms.com
I got a new Bolex this week and this is the first thing I've shot with it, a test in my backyard. It works. good to know. I inspected the camera before I bought it, and it seemed alright, but you never know until you've run a roll of film through it.
This was shot on Kodak 7265 16mm colour negative film, but I developed it with Black and White chemistry, It turns out that the film is tinted orange...interesting...I was playing around with a close-up lens taped to the end of a 70's video-camera lens.
This is week 7 of the film-a-week-project, it was shot by Scott Amos, and the music was made by Mike Wolske. www.oilyfilms.com
This is some 16mm film that I found in my basement, that I had shot, but never processed. Now that I can look at it, although I shot it for no particular reason, it seems to have some meaning to it. It's a little cliche, so I couldn't bring myself to say it outright, but it's there in the footage. It has to do with perception...or something like that. Perhaps the creepiest thing I've ever made. You were warned. Film by Scott Amos, Music by Mike Wolske.
www.oilyfilms.com
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