"Robot Dreams Made Flesh"

This was an experiment that was also the very last thing I shot on my Master Oxberry animation stand before it was donated to MOMI (The Museum of the Moving Image) in 2004. I took some 16mm B&W time lapse footage that I had previously shot with one of my Bolex cameras of model maker, Michael Sullivan working on his stop motion animation opus "The Sex Life of Robots" as part of my "Artists in Motion" documentary project "Sex Machines", and synchronized the positive and the negative as A&B rolls. I then used those rolls as bi-packed traveling matte windows to print imagery of circuit boards, flesh, meat, and various electronic and mechanical components on to color film stock. The B&W stock was very old and grainy, and I never did a proper transfer of the color composite footage, so the project sat on my shelf dormant until recently, when I dug it out and decided to have some fun with it in the digital domain. Music is "Five" by The Hadron Big Bangers (Robert Are, Martin Ear, & Duane Berge).
https://hadronbigbangers.bandcamp.com/releases
http://robomike.com/