This one! I like it! A portrait of a friend.
But I still don’t know why it is so … weird, so rough … is the emulsion simply dead and decayed after 60 years?
Monat: Oktober 2024
Autumn Sun Beams
Im blassen und nassen Hochmoor / Wuthering Heights
Jedes Jahr gibt es an verschiedenen Orten auf der Erde einen Kate-Bush-Flashmob. Leute verkleiden sich wie sie in ihrem Video: rotes Kleid, schwarzer Gürtel, rote Blume. Und tanzen die lustige Choreographie zu “Wuthering Heights”, ihrem ersten Hit, den sie schon mit 16 geschrieben hat und der mich immer wieder von den Socken haut. Ich tanze alleine. Oh Heathcliff! Hat mal eine das Buch (von Emily Brontë) gelesen? Grandios dramatisch! Hooo it gets dark …
Every year there is a Kate Bush flash mob in various places around the world. People dress up like her in her video: red dress, black belt, red flower. And dance the funny choreography to ‘Wuthering Heights’, her first hit, which she wrote when she was 16 and which always knocks my socks off. I dance alone. Oh Heathcliff! Has anyone ever read the book (by Emily Brontë)? It’s terrificly dramatic! Hooo it gets dark …
Filmed with super 8 (expired Agfa Moviechrome)
The link to the film on YouTube
Learning About Film Codes
Some of these very old double 8 films have a code punched directly into the film at the beginning. Makes it easier to detect what it is and to develop it right!
Today I learned that IF is Agfa Isopan F (F stands for fine grain), black & white. From the 60s probably.
KM stands for Kodachrome K40, K II is … Kodachrome K II!
Glass Photos
One of my old film friends inherited a heap of old film and photography material from his deceased professor. Cameras, photo paper, a mountain of film cans full of 16 and 35 mm film of all kinds …
I took some weird photo paper boxes, among them old glass plates from ILFORD! Glass plates with a film emulsion on them, meant for special photo cameras which I don’t own, but who cares, I got an old Brownie which is more or less just a box with a lens … And hooray, the glass plate fits in!
And another hooray: I got an image!
Can you see it?
A window in the upper left corner! And a lantern in the bottom right.
Shells In My Street
Today I found a bunch of shells in my street. Just made me happy, nothing else.
¡Piedra! ¡Montaña! ¡Iglesia!
And Another One!
Another short film online … called “Pini Caldi”, made in Italy.
Click on the image and watch it on Vimeo!!!
Ode To June 2024
Here it is! On YouTube! Click the image!!
Ode To June 2024 Almost Edited
So I’m spending all evenings hugging my computer and FinalCutPro, finishing my “Ode an Juni / Ode to June” film! The 12th! This one will be 18 minutes long. Give me a few more days and it will be online …
Autumn Flower
Just the look out my window.
Autumn Soup
… made from rose hips / Hagebutten!
I love the German word Hagebutte! “Entstanden aus den mittelhochdeutschen Begriffen hagen ‚Dornbusch‘ und butte ‚rundlicher Gegenstand‘ / Originating from the Middle High German terms hagen ‘thorn bush’ and butte ‘roundish object” … says Wiki. Dornbuschrundling! 😀
I made juice to develop some positive prints.
That’s all for this week, autumn cold winds blew into my neck and gave me a little cold. I slow down.
Hatschi / Atishoo!
Café Müllers Wall Of Fame
Here I am, nailing another freshly developed pinhole photo on the wall!
Pini Caldi
A short film that I shot recently in South Italy is now ready to be edited … Just one roll of this lovely Kodak Vision 50 material – wonderful colours, tiny grain – here are some snippets:
