Thursday, September 17, 2009

Cameraless Filmmaking

Is it possible to make a film without a camera? Hell yeah.
I never thought that one day I would be in a class with a 16mm filmstrip, scratching, painting, using inks, cutting magazines and newspapers in order to make a movie, actually I feel really dumb 'cause I never heard of this technique before.
This project helped me a lot in terms of managing the time within the frames, it's amazing how we can achieve incredible results by only messing around with some art stuff, we can create a good rhythm within our film just by acquiring a good sense of how to work with the frames in order to have a smooth result. What is most exciting about all of this is that the subject of the film is our creativity, so it can goes as far as our mind goes (also as weird as our mind can be), so if I wanted a big cloud in the sky burning into fire for 2 seconds, I will have it.
The technique of attaching pieces of magazine and newspaper to the tape is awesome! I felt like editing a film with my own hands, like how they used to do in the past, but with the visual material of my choice.

In the Dark Room I think we needed a second chance, to be honest. After I looked the result of my first film, new ideas just pop into my mind, some things we definitely need to look the "after" to improve the "before". Even not having a second chance I got a good idea of how we can explore this technique to its maximum potential.

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