The manual table is really the best and most satisfying method of going through films to catalogue, inspect, repair, select, prepare for viewing or copying or projecting. Its film nearly at its most peaceful. Ive got loops and stuff but my lens of choice to view strips of film are Bell&Howell 60mm lenses that you find on the 16mm projectors. …

My 16mm print of ‘Dream of Wild Horses’ by Denys Colomb de Daunant looks pretty faded. But maybe it wasn’t in full colour originally anyway. So can it be restored photochemically? We will see.

Added the sound head block to the Matipo to check fixings. Slight deviation from the neat film only path but should work once I work out the voltage to the light.

My studio practice, when I get there is going to involve smallish table top stop motion animation, diaramas, mattes, experimental set-ups and lots of rotoscoping. For all this you need lights. Good old BB-list delivered these nice 1k fresnels in the end. Ive got some old Mole-Richardson 2k fresnels on stands, lots of overhead lights like Minim F’s and Preludes, …

It is well known that flat table editing machines can be modified into contact printers. All that needs to be done is to black out the screen and any light leaks from the cabinet. Make somekind of slit that covers the prism and mask off any light straying out from the prism block. You then load your neg on the …

My film, ‘Me at the Zoo Too’ is an attempt at thinking as the medium of film. It depicts, or rather interprets, or rather ‘thinks about’ the first ever youtube clip to be uploaded, the celebrated and widely written about ‘Me at the Zoo’ by Jawed Karim which has currently had 270 million views and counting. It was uploaded on …

Like anything in an interconnected world I start to prepare and finally paint the floor and get disracted by old electronics. This is the way. I blew a part on my sound follower a few years ago. I had turned it on to check functions and work out how it worked and then a little pop happened and a puff …

So after some successful use, the right hand side projector xenon lamp has started to refuse to strike. Each time it is struck it blows the 6amp fuse on the lamp house. Having experience with igniter units, tesla coils and the scary electrics involved I was fairly pessimistic about being able to fix this. Everything inside the lamphouse looked in …