FILMS

Take II

Work Flow
Recorded with multiple formats: VHS video feedback, miniDV,
16MM optical printer, Super 8 MM film, 16MM original (The City 1939),
cameraless fecal matter experiments with super 8 undeveloped film and 16MM cleared negative.
Multiple Process: Hand process super 8, 16MM optical film processed at The Cinema Lab
Transferred to miniDV tape from projection and in-house SIUC 8mm transfer station.

Remaining process is a standard post production work flow:

Captured with a Sony DSR-11 DV tape deck
Converted into a QuickTime file
Edited with Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro
Exported as an FLV (Flash Video) file
Imported into Adobe Flash
Resized and embedded into a JPEG
Published as a swf
Linked to a web page using Adobe Dreamweaver
Uploaded to a server using the FTP client Fetch Softworks
Stored on a hard drive until requested by a click-of-the-mouse
Streamed to you in a binary numeral system
Decoded on your computer monitor
Received by your eyes with persistence of vision (the only natural process)
Decoded by your brain as a moving picture

It's like taking the time to appreciate what a tree goes through in order to provide us with shade.
What is this media providing us with and with less appreciation for the process?

Filmmaker Ideals for Take II

The motion going from side to side and coming from the center of the screen is designed to be hypnotic and stressful. This is how I feel about media ingestion. The sound increases at the beginning and does so to let you know that I am in control of the sound you are experiencing. You may be tempted to go for the volume but I urge you to experience the entire film and think about how little control we have over the volume of nature. The box in the middle of the screen is the hypnotic box by which the media is delivered. Notice how it blocks the view of the larger image and is competing for your attention. The media we create must fit inside a box and be contained within a comfortable spectrum of sound and site in order for us to consider it as worth our attention. With the film's sound and image I have attempted to capture the true nature of life both good and bad, desirable and undesirable.

I don't make films, films make me. This one helped me to further realize my inescapable ingestion of media. The media frenzy must be seriously considered before the damage to our psyche is irreparable. Take II is a film that is about me and my life as a filmmaker. It can be about many other things; such as, society, media, or green environment but all these things are included in me, the individual. I've worked with video for fifteen years and had many experiences along the way. The video in the center of the screen was a State Finalist video that I made back in 1995. The opening image is a different variety of feedback which was recorded in 1992. I've also included my two fecal matter film experiments in this film; which I created in 2007. These two elements bring my experience together into one film because the end credits are over my newest fecal matter endeavor. Furthermore, I added in some footage from the 1939 film, "The City" mostly because it was part of my original idea. Also, I left it in the final film because the shots of the car crash, the people eating and the trees passing overhead seemed to capture the ever present inner struggle I've been having between nature and technology.

This film is the beginning of my journey into a new movement in art and expression, called the Bowel Movement. I've started this as a way to express my inner universe. Right now, the world as being in a great state of transformation. Only a couple year ago, I was wonderfully influenced by the Qatsi Trilogy and lately by many experimental films, too numerous to mention. The notable thing here is that I've been moved by experimental film and I want to help others to achieve their own personal release. I think the human race is in a stage of transformation where we are mere turds floating in a sewer pipe with a destiny to be fertilizer for the future of the earth. In other words, even though things don't seem so grand with all that's going on in the world, just remember that even the turd has a purpose in the larger scheme of things and is not just waste to be flushed away without any further consideration. Enjoy the images.

Why do we ignore the excrement of life?

 

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