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[Tony Conrad]

Hi Heath-----

In 1974 I produced several hundred feet of "Film Electrocutions." 

The film was wetted with a salt solution and drawn between two electrodes at
9000vac in the dark. This resulted in arcing across the width of the 16mm DP
negative, with the flashing concentrated between the sprocket holes. 

----t0ny


On Wed 02/20/13  8:45 AM , Heath Iverson heath.iverson1 at gmail.com sent:
> Dear Frameworkers,
> 
> I'm a doctoral candidate working on contemporary British
> artists' cinema. At the moment I'm doing some research on Jane
> and Louise Wilson's "The Toxic Camera," an installation which, in
> part, commemorates the nuclear accident at Chernobyl. The installation
> is framed as a response to Vladimir Shevchenko's film, "Chernobyl:
> A Chronicle of Difficult Weeks". Filmed in the immediate aftermath of
> the accident, Shevchenko's film was damaged by the ambient
> radiation--leaving the film's emulsion visibly pockmarked by the
> collision with decaying atomic particles. At various points, the
> Wilson's digital video seems to simulate the material damage in
> the Shevchenko film--sometimes literally mimicking a pocked marked
> emulsion, other times apparently "translating" this analogue damage
> into other digital distortions in the image.
> My question: does anyone know how these digital effects were
> technically achieved? Obviously, there are all kinds of digital
> filters that emulate a "film look," but I would like to know exactly
> what the Wilson's process was in production of their video's
> effects. Perhaps someone has their contact information? 
> A secondary question: Can anyone point me to any other films in which
> the emulsion registers non-light electromagnetic energy, that is,
> radiation outside the visible spectrum. I can think of certain films
> that intentionally make use x-ray photography, but I'd be
> interested in other examples, especially in accidental instances.
> Best wishes,
> Heath
> -- 
> Heath Iverson
> PhD Candidate in Film Studies
> University of St Andrews 99 North Street St. Andrews, KY16 9AD
> Scotland, UK
> 
>