Moving Image Art by Malcolm Le Grice at Performance Space, Carriageworks, 245 Wilson Street, Everleigh NSW 2015. Friday 5th November 6 – 8pm Malcolm Le Grice will introduce a program of films and video, from 1 to 16 mins in duration, made between 1966 and 2009. Malcolm Le Grice started as a painter but began …
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Super8 Tech resources
Here’s a long and comprehensive post compiled by Louise about 8mm film technologies – Super 8hand processing, safety with chemicals, standard 8 stuff, magazines, where to obtain film stock, where to get it developed…
S8 tech info (inc. hand processing)
OH&S links for photochemicals – general; pregnant people; for arts and home handy people in general Devised at the Otherfilm Film Re-film Workshop www.otherfilm.org, Brisbane March 22-26, 2006 by Louise Curham with Sally Golding
DIY Telecine
Prepared for Media Arts, University of Wollongong April 2008, by Louise Curham. Good for everyone! Video camera requirements Manual focus Manual iris Progressive scan tripod
“Now To the Future” by Andrew Frost
Measuring Up / Looking Back / Chewing Over
Measuring Up: Illustrating this comment and this page of sketches and calculations, I’m posting these photos to show how we worked out the relative dimensions of the mirror/screen. Not very complicated! Lucas’ armspan (188cm) was assumed to be similar to Guy’s – thus, we reasoned, Lucas would use a “full-size” mirror of 24X32 inches (61X81.3cm). …
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(Wo)Man With Mirror notes, by Lucas
Louise and I have finally begun the practical work of re-enacting Guy Sherwin’s Man with Mirror (1976-2009). We’ve been looking and thinking about this work for several years now. In August 2008 we spent some time with Guy, when he came to Australia. We saw him performing the piece in Brisbane, and we had a …
Disappearing Video, Video Disappeared?
The above photo shows Louise Curham from the TLC making a cracking point at the plenary discussion session at the end of the Disappearing Video Conference. To her right are Lyndal Jones, Andrew Frost, Stephen Jones and Danni Zuvela. It was a really interesting day. Here’s my round-up of a few random thoughts: Stephen Jones …
Disappearing Video
[above image: Denis Beaubois “In the event of Amnesia the city will recall…” (still, detail) (Sydney) 1996-97 digital video, sound 9:12 minutes] It’s rare enough to see a serious exhibition of video art in an Aussie art museum. But accompanying the MCA’s Video Logic show, there is a super rare screening of historical Australian video …
Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo in Brisbane
above: Guy Sherwin performs “Paper Landscape” in Brisbane during his recent screenings. The TLC’s Louise and Lucas, joined by Sydney film maven Mike Leggett, recently made the trip to Brisbane to see Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo do their thing at the IMA. Guy and Lynn’s trip was courtesy of the Brisbane Film Festival and …