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"Scratchorama" (Cameraless Cinerama)

2015-04-24T20:42:58.677Z

Cameraless animation, sometimes referred to as hand painted cinema or scratch films, is a technique that lends itself to producing vibrant and energetic moving images that I have long enjoyed experimenting with. This film was the result of my first tests using an modified Wolverine F2D-20M slide and neg film digitizer for my cameraless animation digital conversion. I created some adapters to the Wolverine to accommodate various motion picture film formats (16, 35, & 70mm) and to offer some new options for aspect ratio. This film was made using a 1 to 4.0 (Cinerama aspect ratio) adapter.
The music is "Jungleaya" by Los Straightjackets.

"Scratching the Surface" Micro-Cameraless Phase ll

2015-04-19T22:18:05.540Z

Camareless animation created by myself and the students of my 2015 Pratt DDA Experimental Animation class using a Celestron digital microscope and capturing to Dragonframe software. I chose an eight frame strip of 35mm film from each of my students contributions to our hand painted and scratched celluloid, cameraless animation group project and had them experiment with it under the Celestron to see what would happen. I took that footage plus some of my own experiments and edited it all together using the song "Hands - Phase 3" by The Stick Men. To see my previous micro cameraless test go to https://vimeo.com/124753797

"Scratch Tornado" (Micro-Cameraless)

2015-04-19T22:16:16.726Z

This is my first test of a Celestron digital microscope that I bought last year. It is USB connected so I tried using it with Dragonframe single frame capture software. As people who know me are well aware I do a lot of cameraless animation (drawing, painting, scratching, etc of film stock) so I decided to use some of that material for the test. The microscope was being used with the 40x-80x lens (there is also a 150x-300x and a 300x-600x lens on it as well that I have not tested yet) This was basically a cheap, plastic microscope but worked pretty well for these tests. Everything seen in this test was generated from only four frames of 35mm film. The music is "B3" by the Adrian Belew Power Trio and is in no way synchronized to the imagery, it just happened to be the correct running time and I like it. See the follow up to this test at https://vimeo.com/125343586

"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.

"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.