dear film

Written on Jul, 10, 2016 by admin in Lab activity

I really like Hisashi Okajim’s ‘letter to film‘ taken from the issue 89 of FIAF Journal Of Film Preservation.

Hand powered projectors

Written on Jul, 10, 2016 by admin in Lab activity, pre-cinema, things I'm doing, done and planning on doing

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 …

light show clips

Written on May, 27, 2016 by admin in Lab activity

Heres some video clips of the light shows James and myself were doing for MV&EE back in 2011

Blind Mans Buff

Written on May, 09, 2016 by admin in Lab activity

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 …

Bauer P6 studio

Written on May, 09, 2016 by admin in Lab activity

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’. …

cube archive framework

Written on May, 07, 2016 by admin in things I'm doing, done and planning on doing

CUBE ARCHIVE This is a framework for developing an ARCHIVE at the Cube Cinema. This diagram shows different classes of unique ‘objects’ that all connect to the Cube, represent or document it or are just part of its hosted collection. Green oblongs are paper/print based objects. Programmes, posters, flyers, etc. Blue Trapezoids are bound books and periodicals, magazines and books. …

Club Rombus

Written on May, 07, 2016 by admin in club rombus, things I'm doing, done and planning on doing

Seems like a good moment to make some documentation of club rombus. Ill make a static page then add to it. Of course all these links really do is gravitate back to the Cube. For Rombus I’m going to have to dig into the paper, fax, photocopy archives. How did we manage before the www? Well we didn’t have …

camera as projector

Written on May, 06, 2016 by admin in Lab activity

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 …

light piece with spheres

Written on May, 06, 2016 by admin in Lab activity, pre-cinema

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.