Sweet Intuition- Part I

This was a labor of love. I say that for many reasons- romantic, obsessive, blind, sentimental- but I will leave out the personal reasons and focus on the technical for now! I split this film into two parts and I'm sharing them one at a time. It would be too long, otherwise. Part One (below) consists of Super-8mm footage I shot in Paris. Part Two will eventually be above this one. I'm not fond of this method of blogging organization, by the way. It gets quite annoying when one wants to continue a thought at a later time and can't do so fluidly without directing readers to the post just below it. It's almost like starting a book with the last chapter and asking the reader to skip to the end and read from the back. I digress.

The film is a reflection on romance. The setting is Paris (bien sûr). This first part is a fairytale daydream view of the City of Lights- complete with Eifel Tower and carousel! The second will come tomorrow...

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.