Leigh Ledare 00 PH, best known for his own disturbing photography, presents a new 16
mm film called Vokzal, shot in Moscow outside three adjacent train stations and presented in the galleries as three looped 16 mm projections replete with the cranking and buzzing of the anachronistic projectors used to screen the film on the walls.
Not exact matches
June of last year,
MM and I made a short
film called Be Your Shoeself.
After Bendjelloul ran out of
film for his 8
mm camera, he used an iPhone app
called 8
mm Vintage Camera to shoot the remainder of the movie, which came out in 2012.
There's a scene midway through the
film where the Browns gather around an old 16
mm projector in Mr Gruber's shop and Paddington, entranced by the warm glow emanating from it, steps forward and walks straight through the screen into a world far removed from the drab, drizzly place he has come to
call home.
But that's not all: Using plenty of gorgeous footage from some of your favorite recent
films, Saladino delves deeper into the appeal of his favorite format, which he
calls the «perfect middle ground between the retro aesthetic charm» of 8
mm and the more polished look of 35
mm.
by Walter Chaw The title refers to a New York Museum of Natural History diorama
called «Clash of the Titans» that proposes what a tussle between a sperm whale and a giant squid would look like — and it functions as the final, stirring tableaux of a 16
mm film self - consciously shot in the manner of early Jim Jarmusch or Spike Lee joints.
Each will focus on a different aspect of Dean's practice; the NPG will show her portrait work, including her six - screen portrait of Merce Cunningham, the National Gallery will display still lifes (both 15 March — 28 May), and the RA will show landscapes — among them, a new 35
mm CinemaScope
film called Antigone (19 May — 12 August).
The former's book Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation is a powerful indictment of corporate power and ecological irresponsibility, while Thompson's 35
mm film,
called Autoportrait, was made in collaboration with Diamond Reynolds, who broadcast on social media the moments following her partner Philando Castile's fatal shooting by a police officer in Minnesota.
One morning last February, Tacita Dean
called to tell me her
film lab in Soho had just informed her they would no longer be printing 16
mm film, her chosen medium and that of dozens of other artists, with immediate effect.
The bell tolling at the outset of Tigertail, 2007, Dara Friedman's new 16 -
mm film, immediately
calls to mind Toll, 2002, in which
film footage was projected onto a drywall campanile she erected in the exhibition space.
Starting with an 8
mm camera, he began making
films with his stock company
called The Dreamlanders, which included drag queen Divine.
A crop sensor is
called that because it's cropped to a smaller size than a 35
mm sensor (or piece of
film).