This second part consists of about 7200 16mm frames of the film "Amelie" (a more "professional" romantic fairytale view of Paris, but a parallel one). Each frame was cut out, stacked in order, placed in bundles of 24, labeled and then individually re-pasted (in order) on strips of 35mm film that had been flashed with colored lights and scratched. These strips hung in my lab for two days while the glue dried, then they were spliced together to form the complete five minute film below.
This film celebrated an anniversary of sorts this last Saturday. I participated, in my way, in my friend's annual all-night meditation. I stayed up until 5:00 AM cutting my 16mm frames in my own quasi-meditation.
A wedding gift. The bulk of this film consists of a 16mm test print my film lab did of the movie Amelie. Bound for the trash, I picked the curl of film up and cut it into thousands of individual frames using a guillotine splicer. I stacked them into little piles of 24 frames (1 second) to keep them in order. I then flash-exposed some tails of 35mm interpositve film stock and developed it. Where the film was dark, I scratched off the emulsion. I then glued each frame of 16mm film onto the strips of 35mm. The first few minutes consist of super 8mm footage taken during a romantic trip to Paris.