Their distinctive buzzing sound effect is not that mysterious, it was achieved by combining the sound
of an old film projector with that of television interference.
The partnership began when McCall wanted to reengage sound after a turn toward digital projection removed the incidental sound that used to accompany his use
of old film projectors, with all their wheezing and whirring.
Not exact matches
An eight - millimeter movie
projector to the left
of the ring is clacking and spinning, throwing sepia - tinted images onto a blank area
of the crumbling plaster wall:
films of the roughly sixteen - year -
old Cassius Clay jumping rope and blistering a heavy bag and a speed bag.
Film — proper,
old - fashioned analogue
film, screened using one
of those hulking
projectors that generate nearly as much heat and sound as light — is Tacita Dean's medium and, in many ways, her subject.
In his process - based
film installations, Mauricio Ancalmo often incorporates found machines
of various kinds — 16 mm
film projectors, a sewing machine, a word processor, turntables,
old medical equipment — and pushes these mechanical instruments to their material limit, so that chance, physical breakdown, and erosion become incorporated into his working method without being the end in and
of itself.
It could be the equivalent
of somebody looking at an
old film, and realizing that the
film came from a
projector, and discovering that there is an image in the
projector, and that it's made
of molecules
of grains
of film - and then trying to find the mystery
of the story by looking at ever more detailed molecules
of film, thinking, If I finally get to the heart
of that, will it tell me where my story comes from?