When I was at Bard, I had high hopes of producing my senior film as a triptych. I wanted the main narrative reel in the center frame with two projections on either side - identical to each other but more evocative of what the characters in the main frame were feeling. What a pain in the ass. Never-mind maintaining perfect synchronization, what about dealing with three projectors? Oh right and 45 minutes of 16mm film instead of just 15 minutes. And do you think I was going to A/B roll all three reels myself? Needless to say, I abandoned that idea in favor of actually finishing a project before graduation.
Thank you, the Internet, for making some of those painful problems obsolete...mostly. Now I'm just dependent on bandwidth and the speed at which you, dear reader, can hit play on the two videos below.
What self-indulgent little experimental treat do I have for you? It's just super 8 footage of the Hoover Dam with my all time favorite cheap effect - kaleidoscope. Actually, in this case, it's just 'mirror'. I couldn't just apply it to the film once because then I'd be losing half the frame. That's a lot of money. So I flipped the image and applied the mirror again, so that you could see the other half of the image. Make sense? Well, see if your bandwidth will let you play these at the same time, and you'll see what I mean.
