MetaFilter posts tagged with experimentalfilm

Possibly the most controversial National Film Board film of all time.

dunkadunc — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:06:27 -0800

Norman McLaren's 1952 short film [Youtube version] Neighbours uses live actors in a stop-motion film, to great effect.
McLaren created the soundtrack by scratching the edge of the film, which was then read by the projector.

Multiple SIDosis

UKnowForKids — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:34:54 -0800

Multiple SIDosis is nine minutes and seven seconds of pure joy. We discussed Sid Laverents four years ago, but since then, his masterwork, Multiple SIDosis, has appeared on YouTube. I had the pleasure of attending a screening of four of Mr. Laverents' short films at last weekend's fantastic Wisconsin Film Festival, and thought this film was worth sharing. There's a lot of context for Mr. Laverents' career in the previous Metafilter post, if you're curious. A former vaudeville performer who specialized in the one-man band, he's turning 100 this year, and still making VHS and DVD transfers of his films himself (although his email address seems to be defunct). An autobiography, The First 90 Years are the Hardest, is also available. Enjoy!

Ontology=Zen, Material Reality=Nothingness, Jurgen Reble=Film Alchemist

jrb223 — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:33:30 -0800

“It was only natural that one day I should decide to toss my film into a dank corner of my garden. After a hot, humid summer, I came to gather up the film(Embedded Quicktime), which over the course of the summer I'd entirely forgotten. The colors remained very pure and intense, but had departed from their previous form. Indeed, they were laying themselves down upon the old action film to form veritable mosaics of color, remarkably like the stained glass of church windows. This was a really pleasurable experience.” – Jurgen Reble, on his art