Archive for the ‘Film’ Category

8mm and Super 8 mm (punch holes, cross processed, found footage)

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Anyone who knows me is aware of my longtime passion for 8mm and Super 8 mm movie films. I have a wide and somewhat bewildering variety of cameras, editors, and miscellaneous equipment devoted to this art. (Though not the collection I once had.) One of these items is a camera which is fully deserving of a photograph of it’s own, at the end of the lens is a bulb and film gate through which you can thread 8mm film (Super 8 will of course fit as well, but doesn’t line up with the gate quite as well), you can use this camera to rephotograph individual frames from the film onto 127 film (usually available from Frugal Photographer.)

Works from this process are falling into a few different categories: a series of photos from kodachrome punch holes (Kodak punched identification codes into the tail ends of the films, with fascinating results on the individual frames), a series on an unfortunate roll of Ektachrome that I cross processed into abstract art, and a series of found footage photographs. With each 50 ft. roll of film containing approximately 4000 individual frames, I don’t think I’ll be running out of images for these for a while:

Crossprocessed out-of-date Ektachrome G160, film processed in 1996, rephotographed 2007.

Kodachrome Puncholes on found footage, original film from approximately 1960, rephotographed 2008.

“The Kid”, found Kodachrome footage from approximately 1957, rephotographed in 2008.