I really like Hisashi Okajim’s ‘letter to film‘ taken from the issue 89 of FIAF Journal Of Film Preservation.
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I’m really excited about getting hands on with the Curzon Cinema’s (in Clevedon, England) fine collection of projectors and other Cinema apparatus. I first contacted them in 2011 about my idea of doing an ‘Artists Residency’ IN the collection to explore creative projects, repurposings, workshops, events and experiments that all utilise and respond in some way to the objects moving …
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Heres some video clips of the light shows James and myself were doing for MV&EE back in 2011
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These pieces of Nitrate found at the Cube Cinema are a Billy West short called ‘Blind Mans Buff’. Billy West was a Charlie Chaplin impersonator. The title card also reads King Bee Comedies. The film is in very good condition but has shrunk too far to pass safely through my printer now. If it is to be scanned it will …
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Cleaning up and checking this old machine for a potential exciting assignment. This projector plays magnetic sound from 16mm as well as optical. As shown below its also a SEPMAG and COMMAG projector and the magnetic band is laced up on this ear side. This image shows something I always liked. This is the view down the optical light ‘lens’. …
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So here is a camera being used as a projector, ie a light source is inside the camera body projecting through the gate where a piece of film is held. The left one has a 135mm (Apochromat, Kinoptik) lens BUT the right one has a cinema 35mm lens with focal length of 40mm. The image sizes are below. The camera …
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Here is a shot of the open studio light piece with shadows of ping pong balls configured to imagine a planetary event. The projector was a rank tutor with its normal lens removed and instead a 35mm cinema lens. The small ball is levitating, the large one also appears to be floating.
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Finally after years of effort our collection of 35mm Kung Fu trailers has been scanned and released by Severin. See the details at Severins site.
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Frames found under the pedastol of the Kalee21 projector we have been using at the Cube Cinema since 1998 that was recently retired to make way for some modern machines. For an 18 year period I thought this small sample of wasted, discarded, lost or just dropped frames would make a good Archeo-Cube project. So I am going to scan …
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I’ve been doing more tests with film surface distress and a better set up to rephotograph. This frame shows the effect after only minutes exposure to the distressing agent. The circular area is about 5mm in diameter.
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