Louise Curham and Lucas Ihlein – Australia
big day today, meeting with kat and telling her all about the project, what we’re trying to do, the four works that we’re concentrating on. she’s our tech assistant, and will be helping us set the room up for long film for ambient light. all these works have a concentration on time, pushing and pulling …
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Interestingly, I start to align the new media with Lucas and the old media with me, this is NG. Means I align the anthropomorphic failure of the film with myself – NG. Focus problems in the film – registration pulse problem. No evident problem in the actual camera, checked it. Actions list 9/3/07: 1. buy …
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Section 1. Find problem in loss of lux in video iteration in projection. The film will end up black if we continue with the image in pos. Opt to use the negativising option in the video camera. Discuss lighting state. Try fluoro to increase light in room as video camera exposure level is very dark. …
wow this is turning out to be an oddball project. yesterday and today we spent learning how to hand process 16mm film (louise already knew, but was learning to do it more systematically, and i was starting from scratch). it’s pretty much the same as processing 35mm black and white still photographic negative, except obviously …
Yesterday we began our residency at the performance space, working with expanded cinema. It’s been a bit crazy, making space for this project. Life’s so hectic, but it’s good to have the three weeks laid aside specifially to focus on this stuff, even if we’re not as “prepared†as we might have wanted to be. …
Curham’s opening remarks: I am not a blogger but I am a diarist – I have boxes and boxes and boxes of notebooks. Not sure how valuable this stuff is I’ll have to say. For now, will just get on with saying it. Entry for 8th will come here but is down at P Space …
Louise and Lucas from the Teaching and Learning Cinema are doing a residency at the Performance Space in Sydney, to work on trying out some re-enactments of Expanded Cinema events from the early 1970s. We’ll post up our progress reports here in the next few weeks!