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"Cellular Memories" Pratt Experimental

2016-06-17T22:27:32.019Z

Created with the students of my 2016, Pratt DDA, Experimental Animation class. The same hand painted, cameraless, 35mm film footage is used two times, first digitized full frame with a modified Wolverine F2D-20M slide converter, and a second time photographed under a Celestron 44320 digital microscope and Dragonframe software. Edited by student Robert Bergin and myself. The music is "Plantasia by Mort Garson.

"In The Moog" (U-Arts Animation)

2014-04-18T03:24:40.548Z

This is a rotoscoped animation created by the students of my 2013 "Object Animation" class at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia PA. The source material was a 16mm print of a music video created by my father's company Record on Film, in 1969 that was a medley of electronic music performed by Richard Hyman on a Moog synthesizer.

"Spacid Filmutations" (U-Arts Animation)

2013-06-22T05:59:32.388Z

"Spacid Filmutions" is the title of this 2013 U-Arts, Object Animation class, group project, cameraless animation experimental film. As the title implies it is, in part, about the mutation of film, it is also an abstract experiment in motion picture visual music.
The students worked their imagery directly onto a variety 35mm film stocks that I supplied, using a wide range of media, methods, and techniques to artistically alter the original film materials (if you look carefully, you can find imbedded on some of the source material film clips, images from the TV show, "Pee Wee's Playhouse", & the feature film, "Star Trek V"). The finished film clips were edited together and then transferred at Technicolor Postworks in NYC to an HD digital file for final editing, sound, effects, and titles. The film was directed by student, Nishant Thelakkat. Sound design and music is by greenbeanz & nhuhn (students Mike Green & Nick Huhn). Editing is by Nick Huhn & myself, and title designs are by student, Alleanna Harris.

"Pee Wee's Psychedelic Adventure"

2013-05-16T16:18:06.244Z

Through the magical combination of music, cameraless animation, and a digital transfer of scratched, painted, dyed, and drawn on, 35mm film stock, Pee Wee Herman & Cowboy Curtis (Laurence Fishburne) are transported beyond the fourth wall on a psychedelic adventure at Pee Wee's Playhouse. This is an experimental art film that laughs at itself while exploring alternative realities on multiple levels. The source material 35mm roll of film was one I had left over from my days as an animation DP (Director of Photography) in the 80's and 90's. All the art-on-film animation was created by myself and five students (Shannon Brice, Alleanna Harris, Ben Howell, Bianca Lott, & Austin Myers) from my 2013 Object Animation class at U-Arts in Philadelphia.
The film to digital transfer was done at Technicolor, Postworks in NYC.
The music is a live performance of the song "4 to 6 or 25" written and performed by Anonymous

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

2013-04-04T05:05:20.302Z

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.