Film Categories: cameraless

  • FACE IT! (Cast Your Self™)

    Images from the private sphere of the world wide web. “The video has been removed due to its inappropriate nature”. (Sat, 03. Mar 2007, YouTube | Broadcast Yourself™)

  • Boy’s Mouth, A

    The power of one boy’s speech.

  • Net 06

    A cameraless film animation. An analogue digital collision.

  • Richard Reeves: A Compilation of Cameraless Animation Films

    A DVD compilation of cameraless animation by a master of the genre. All of the images and sounds are created by drawing, painting, etching or applying shapes directly onto the film. “A master of scratch animation, Reeves extends the tradition of visual music first explored in Canada by Norman McLaren. This is sublime work of cinematic dexterity” (Philip Hoffman). Titles: Garbanzo (2 min. 16mm 1992) Zig Zag (1 min. 35mm 1993) Linear Dreams (7 min. 35mm 1997) CFMDC Trailer (30 sec. 35mm 2000) Sea Song (4 min. 35mm 1999) OIAF 02 Signal Film (30 sec. 35mm 2002) 1:1 (2.5 min.…

  • Here We Are

    Constructed of footage and sound found on You Tube, “Here We Are” explores online watchers and their subjects. Low-resolution personal documents and family photos create this abstracted and voyeuristic video.

  • Optical Itzak

    My son, Itzak, looks at everything…Maybe this is what he sees.

  • Forever Hold Your Peace

    Live actions with hand scratched sound, this film presents the frustration of feeling the need to speak with nothing to say. Filmed by the artist’s husband at the time, the film also relates to subtle complexities of communication within marriage.

  • Fore-and-Aft

    “Fore-and-Aft” was created by the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada – site of the highest tides in the world. Images of the tides are married with celluloid that was buried in the sea bed, and dragged through the ocean behind a boat. Physically exposing film to the motion and light of the sea recorded tactile evidence of the repetition and changes wrought by tide cycles.

  • Stained

    Clear film dyed and stained with household products; tea, beat juice, etc. created for the Halifax Experimental Music Festival (HEMF 8)

  • Girl’s Nervy, The

    Exuberant rhythms are created for the eyes in this nostalgic study of the single film frame, through cutting, pasting, and painting clear and photographed film images. Fleeting shapes in lush, spattered color flicker and dance to big band beats.