[Frameworks] Double-8 camera ---> 16mm projection

Christopher Ball cbifilms at gmail.com
Wed Nov 24 18:05:18 CST 2021


I would be curious to see that (Polly)

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 6:29 PM Ugo Bo <ugobodibra at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rolf Wiest in 'Polly' (1969, 16mm, 10min, col.) took to the extreme
> consequences this possibility: he projected on 16mm the 4 frames shot on
> double-8 and re-shot in double-8 and again and again, 7 time, until having
> 4^7=16384 images in 1 frame, i.e. 393216 fps. It's a scene of a naked girl
> and a dog, satifying at the beginning a sort of voyeuristic pleasure,
> becoming more and more de-structurated. The soundtrack works in reverse,
> becoming at the end competely recognozible: Vivaldi's 4 seasons.
>
> Cheers
> Livio
>
> Il giorno mercoledì 24 novembre 2021, Esperanza Collado <
> esperanzacollado1 at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> > Hey Frameworkers,
> > I am trying to remember a contemporary filmmaker who has worked
> extensively with double-8 format, projecting the results later on a regular
> 16 or s16mm instead of splitting the filmstrip in two. Maybe it's someone
> on this list. One of my students is considering shooting and would like to
> see examples. Please, help me find her/him if you know who I'm talking
> about, or else, if you know films that can be watched on the internet using
> this format in this unorthodox way. Thank you!
> > I have used double-8 once and it's interesting, as you can use double
> perf 16mm film...
> > --
> > Esperanza Collado
> > www.esperanzacollado.net
> >
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