Old Super-8 home movies, really! Yes, I forced friends and family to endure these unintelligible, incoherent excuses for movies. Then, a decade later, MTV came along, and suddenly this stuff became relevant again. Why "C.I.A." Chronicles? C.I.A.=California Institute of the Arts, the school I was attending while these movies were constructed.
Old Super-8 home movies, really! Yes, I forced friends and family to endure these unintelligible, incoherent excuses for movies. Then, a decade later, MTV came along, and suddenly this stuff became relevant again. Why "C.I.A." Chronicles? C.I.A.=California Institute of the Arts, the school I was attending while these movies were constructed.
Back in the stone age, I made movies using a Super-8 camera. Dave Berry's definition of movie: a sequence of still images depicting movement or stasis depending on the arrangement. These movies were constructed using an intervalometer and a single frame trigger: short "texture collages" edited in the camera. This idea was built on, now 30 years later, adding some digital editing and music, but trying to retain the spontaneity of the original.
Shot in Super-8, and definitely not everyone's cup of tea, so to speak. These bits and pieces were all shot with my trusty Nizo S800 camera using the intervalometer and single frame trigger. In-camera dissolves, colored filters, pixilation, stop-motion, streak photography and loud music figure in the mix here.
Distressed TV images mixed with pavement textures! Back in the day I used to film my favorite movie scenes off an old BW TV (before Betamax or VHS existed!). And I used to obsessively collect single frame images of pavement. Some years later, thought it would be cool to mix them!
Sketches of Kathmandu, filmed in Super-8. Time-lapse, and single frame collages imbue this film with a rich dreamlike quality. The Living Goddess of the title refers to the “Kumari Devi”, a young girl selected with elaborate ritual, and worshipped as a source of supreme power. She appears at the end of the film where she is paraded through Durbar Square in front of the King and Queen of Nepal.
More crude home movies from the 1970s depicting activities at a certain location in the San Fernando Valley. Friends, the response to "5757" has been overwhelming, and I am truly grateful! "Scenes from G", while less significant, continues the story of that certain location.
My old home movies from the 70s! Kinetic, visceral, trippy, incomprehensible fun, with some historical significance thrown in the mix!! My camera was a Braun Nizo S800 (I still have it!), and I seldom shot anything at "normal" speed. No apologies! Plenty of regrets!
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