One afternoon in July of 2015 I took a studio class at the Echo Park Film Center on experimental film making. This is a very interesting technique on making looping films and looping sound tracks with no camera.
Basically, the film: is a transparent lead of 16mm film about 6 feet long with the beginning and the end taped together to create a loop. The images are magazine clippings (soaked in warm water to detach the pulp, leaving transparent images). The transparent images are adhered to the film lead by sandwiching the clippings between a 1/2 inch wide piece of transparent scotch tape to the film.
The sound: is an old music cassette tape made into a loop by opening the case and cutting out a piece big enough to make one circulation through the “play” process and scotch taping the beginning to the end to create a loop. The rest of the tape is taken out and the case is re-closed. Note that this can only be done on music cassette tapes that are sealed with tiny screws.
The above experimental film was created by Margie Schnibbe, Ariel Teal, Anna Ayeroff, and Victoria Delgadillo. The Scotch Tape Cinema and Sound class was taught by Mike Stoltz. He also digitized and edited the final version.
My film is the last section with the sound track of “Depeche Mode” on a loop. Enjoy!
Below is another experimental film I made at EPFC (May 2016)–all on computer–“Vortex.” I can’t remember the process though. That IS my hand manipulating something. Now that I am looking at this it seems to me that the circle is the computer camera lense/eye, and I am touching the computer screen to get the waves. There must be a computer mirror setting to get those atmospheric views, as you record from the computer at the same time. Well, remember that old age is not a factor on my memory, I tend to forget things I won’t use anymore. I’m just jaded.