cinePLOSION!!! produced three analog short film experiments between Dec.'09-March'10. They were all completed without computers, with the exception of transferring them to be seen here, and some minor edits by William Blake Watson on "Your Love So Cold."
"Sports on Fire"
visuals: Dan Anderson, script: Bobby Missile, music:Bobby Missile/Anna Wingfield.
"Bird Nest"
visuals: Dan Anderson, script: Bobby Missile, music: Bobby Missile
"Your Love So Cold"
visuals/direction: Dan Anderson, music/editing: William Blake Watson
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
cinePLOSION!!!
cinePLOSION!!! is a multi-media visual dance party. It is an offshoot of the Bearded Child Traveling Film Festival. The idea is to present experimental film and live media in a way that is interactive and fun. Traditionally, experimental film has been shown in underground venues where the audience sits and watches in a darkened space of some kind.
However, in the 1960s and 70s film began to merge with the party culture of the time. Andy Warhol was one of the first innovators, with his "Exploding Plastic Inevitable." He would project 16mm film footage of The Velvet Underground over the band playing live, often wheeling the projector closer and farther from the stage in a cart to change the aspect of the projection. One of their most noted performances was at the 1967 Ann Arbor Film Festival in Michigan, just before Warhol & Nico's widespread fame. He was also one of the first to produce double projection movies, in which two projections would be shown side-by-side via two separate projectors. "Chelsea Girls" is his most famous double projection.
During the 60s/70s era, "liquid slides" and other psychedelic visual projections were common place at parties and alternative club settings. These ideas originated from the magic lantern shows, which date back to the mid/late 1800s. A magic lantern was essentially a slide image "shadow" that could be manipulated in various ways by a skilled illusionist. Today, artists such as Ken Jacobs and Courtney Hopkins have used magic lantern techniques in academic and other cultural settings. Jacobs' "Nervous Magic Lantern" is said to produce a 3D image that can be observed even with one eye closed. (traditional 3D requires the perception of two eyes for full effect.) The flicker image of this work is also cautioned as potentially inducing epileptic seizures.
Today's premiere multi-visual traveling performers include Projexorcism, Bill Brown/Sabine Gruffat, Roger Beebe and Potter-Belmar Labs. Holiganship has traveled extensively with animated visuals, while Animal Charm pioneered VHS mixing in the early 90s.
The current version of cinePLOSION!!! is completely computer free, utilizing dated video mixers, security camera, and feedback loops. Performances began in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas in Feb. 2009 (sans one 2005 showing at the High Noon Saloon in Madison, WI). The the visuals are manipulated by Dan Anderson (your author), and a rotating mix of collaborators that have included Bobby Missile, Shane English, William Blake Watson, Micheal Shaefer, and others. Below are a few samples of performances:
First Show, Feb. 09 at Low Key Arts:
No Funeral, March '10 at the Exchange:
Blue Screen Skyline, May '10 at Low Key Arts:
Free form projection, May '10 at Low Key Arts:
However, in the 1960s and 70s film began to merge with the party culture of the time. Andy Warhol was one of the first innovators, with his "Exploding Plastic Inevitable." He would project 16mm film footage of The Velvet Underground over the band playing live, often wheeling the projector closer and farther from the stage in a cart to change the aspect of the projection. One of their most noted performances was at the 1967 Ann Arbor Film Festival in Michigan, just before Warhol & Nico's widespread fame. He was also one of the first to produce double projection movies, in which two projections would be shown side-by-side via two separate projectors. "Chelsea Girls" is his most famous double projection.
During the 60s/70s era, "liquid slides" and other psychedelic visual projections were common place at parties and alternative club settings. These ideas originated from the magic lantern shows, which date back to the mid/late 1800s. A magic lantern was essentially a slide image "shadow" that could be manipulated in various ways by a skilled illusionist. Today, artists such as Ken Jacobs and Courtney Hopkins have used magic lantern techniques in academic and other cultural settings. Jacobs' "Nervous Magic Lantern" is said to produce a 3D image that can be observed even with one eye closed. (traditional 3D requires the perception of two eyes for full effect.) The flicker image of this work is also cautioned as potentially inducing epileptic seizures.
Today's premiere multi-visual traveling performers include Projexorcism, Bill Brown/Sabine Gruffat, Roger Beebe and Potter-Belmar Labs. Holiganship has traveled extensively with animated visuals, while Animal Charm pioneered VHS mixing in the early 90s.
The current version of cinePLOSION!!! is completely computer free, utilizing dated video mixers, security camera, and feedback loops. Performances began in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas in Feb. 2009 (sans one 2005 showing at the High Noon Saloon in Madison, WI). The the visuals are manipulated by Dan Anderson (your author), and a rotating mix of collaborators that have included Bobby Missile, Shane English, William Blake Watson, Micheal Shaefer, and others. Below are a few samples of performances:
First Show, Feb. 09 at Low Key Arts:
No Funeral, March '10 at the Exchange:
Blue Screen Skyline, May '10 at Low Key Arts:
Free form projection, May '10 at Low Key Arts:
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Cookies for Satan
This is just a clip from a flick called "Cookies for Satan." This was about 2003/4, 11minutes, shot on super8mm. Some video in the full short. The actual movie is composed of three "nightmares" that the main character encounters while suffering from a severe "reality attack."
This may have been the most memorable clip, but the other scenes have full cryptic intensity as well.
Hope to release on cinePLOSION!!! some day, with five similar film shorts never posted online.
Premiered at Cinema Nova in Brussels, Belgium. Later showed at the Brainwash Movies Fest in Oakland, CA.
Notice that Sharon Needles is featured, and is now a bit of an online drag celebrity. Look up the name on youtube-- truly underground and hilarious.
This may have been the most memorable clip, but the other scenes have full cryptic intensity as well.
Hope to release on cinePLOSION!!! some day, with five similar film shorts never posted online.
Premiered at Cinema Nova in Brussels, Belgium. Later showed at the Brainwash Movies Fest in Oakland, CA.
Notice that Sharon Needles is featured, and is now a bit of an online drag celebrity. Look up the name on youtube-- truly underground and hilarious.
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