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It‘s A Brownie!

I found a new toy. A Brownie! As simple as a pinhole camera but with a lens instead of a hole. One step higher towards complication!

It is meant for the use of Kodak-special 620 film rolls that don’t exist any more. You can use 120 film but you will have to roll it on those 620 spools which you must find somewhere …
Too complicated, I cut photo paper to the right size and stuffed it in, squeezed it in the back door frame!

And then I thought why not trying to develop the paper pieces positive instead of negative? It’s a far more complicated process but it’s possible. There’s even an eco alternative … so I mixed some coffee, soda and vitamin c for the two developers and some hydrogen peroxide and acetic acid for the strong bleach.

Luckily I am staying on the countryside right now at my friend’s place, we drive around, find beautiful spots and click the Brownie!

And then we spend hours in the darkroom polishing the recipe, heating the soup, playing with developing time, trying not to sniff the stinky bleach, getting completely black papers and some very pale, some with weird dots and stripes, but some come out funky magical and beautiful!

28 Pinhole Photos

… are hanging now outside in the green! In the Silent Green – a fantastic culture center venue in Berlin! It is part of a gigantic 1 month exhibition: THE GARDEN. CINEMATICS OF THE SOIL, dedicated to the life and work of the British filmmaker, artist and activist Derek Jarman. … see here click click!
I am a micro exhibition! I wrote about it: “Kiss the Moment, it’s Not a Pyramid!
Over the course of many days, Dagie Brundert is out and about on the silent green grounds, taking pinhole camera photos in the garden. Negatives. One every now and then. With her trusty, much-travelled Illy coffee can, she lets chance and mood guide her, looking for spots where beauty beats banality by a mile to capture just one moment. For a few seconds. The developed images are returned to their place of origin, hung up there and they remain there until they are destroyed, soaked or weathered – kiss the moment, it’s not a pyramid!”
Let it begin!

The Pyramid Film Is Online

Kiss the Moment, it’s not a Pyramid! (Göteborg)
2021 • 4.21 min • Super 8

A documentary. Klick here to watch it on Youtube.

I make positive prints from my pinhole negatives, I develop them in a specific soup that is related to the object: Magnolia soup, tree leaf soup, cucumber pickle soup … and in Kompostol, a developer made from food waste.
A person’s leftover food of one day makes one liter of developer and develops about 6 photos.

I take something from nature and I give it back.

I hang the photo in the place where it was taken. It remains there until it gets stolen, rained down, or weathered.

It is in transit, it will disappear, but that doesn’t matter, the flowers are wilting as well and the trees are losing their leaves.
Nothing is forever, but for a while it is just there, delightful: kiss the moment, it’s not a pyramid!

Click the image, watch the film!!!!!

Ode To June Time Again

You know that I am an Ode-to-June film maker? Every June I have to capture June, my ultimately favorite month, in picture and sound.
Diary film, Berlin portrait, life excerpt, colorful poem, something like that …
There are now 8 odes, all between 16 and 32 minutes long. And there will be more each year as long as there is Super 8. And me.


There’s also a website for all my June films! Click here!!!!

“Kiss The Moment, It‘s Not A Pyramid”

… is the title of my pinhole photo installation.

It is a give-it-back-where-I-took-it-from:

I am hanging my pinhole photos (baryte cardbord, each one developed in an appropriate developing soup like Magnolia Juice, Coffee, Kompost Tea, Gurkol aka Cucumber Pickle Water) carefully to where they came from: on a tree, on a special place somewhere at Konstepidemin area!
 
Of course they can get stolen or destroyed the very next day, they will wither and rain away with time and weather, but that’s part of the game: baryte paper with robust grommets and cords can stay hanging for months! Or disappear within days. It doesn’t scare or bother me: it’s just like life, things come and leave, nothing lasts forever, kiss the moment, it’s not a pyramid!

Biking And Analogy

No rain yesterday, so I took my chance for a little bike ride all down Linnégatan and along the harbour down that beautiful big bridge to Röda Sten and then up the hill across Slottskogen back home.
I took my camera and my Solstickan matchboxes for animation with me, was sitting on a bench in the park, thinking about running girls … and then I saw this statue: a running girl / woman with roots under her feet! Somehow it matched my thoughts and my film … so I filmed her too. Analogy. The story will come.

The artist of the rootgirl is Klara Kristalova!

Fresh Photos

Baryte photos need to dry over night between towels.

Good morning! These are my results from yesterday’s darkroom session, I developed some in Caffenol, some in Blätterol – tree leaves tea! Some are too dark, some are wischiwaschi, must try more. It’s not so easy with the right light exposure time but I’m already in love with my improvised toilet darkroom!!!

 

First Super 8 Stills

I just couldn’t wait … I have already developed 4 TriX super 8 films here in different potions like Kompostol, Gurkol, Caffenol, Beetrootol … and since I don’t have the possibility to digitize my films here (I will do that when I’m back in Berlin) I chased them through Maria’s lovely Eumig projector and filmed some snippets with my phone. Inverted them in iMovie.
Here come some stills!!!! Blue tone because of slightly brownish tint of the film plus the warm projector light = inverted colour = blueish.