"America's Wonderland" 35MM Cameraless 2013 (Pratt DDA Experimental Animation)

You'll want to watch this full screen, in HD and turn up the volume.
Created in my Spring 2013 Pratt Experimental Animation Class, this is raw cameraless animation, or scratch film footage, transferred from 35mm film to a digital file on a Spirit at Technicolor Postworks in NYC. I had the footage transferred once as print, and once as negative, in order to get more material to edit from. I gave my students clear & black leader, various print & neg found footage, and some old Hi-Con film matte rolls, as well as bag loads of art supplies, to draw, scratch, and otherwise alter & abuse the film stock. Then I demonstrated a number of techniques involving bleaching, stenciling, abrasives, rubbings, & burning, for them to experiment with and let them lose to have some fun with this abstract approach to filmmaking.
The music the footage is set against is "Ozium" by Monster Magnet.