unterwegs in Sachen Film >>> <<< on the road making films!
This week I’ve had all my Super 8 cassettes digitised: two in colour, one in black and white, one Kodachrome (which turned out orange – and when flipped, it’s blue! You have already seen it …) …
And now I’m starting to sort through them and jot down my thoughts to get an overview of this huge pile of footage!
My current film is going to be long – I reckon about 30 minutes. I’ve never made a Super 8 film this long before …
Here are a few snippets!
And on we go with my scavenger hunt film: after France in July, it’s on to Lüneburg and the heather in September.
Melusine turns up in Lüneburg too, but actually I think this trail has come to an end – when I threw the Melusine shells into the Atlantic …
In Lüneburg, the theme is … well, I’m not quite sure yet; in the market square, there’s an Artemis fountain (goddess of the hunt, guardian of animals and of girls both young and old). She wears a crescent moon on her head; Lüneburg’s Roman name was Lunaburgum, but actually the name doesn’t come from Luna (= moon) but from the Old Saxon word Hluni (= refuge, protection).
Now I’m in the Lüneburg Heather, a vast area of heatherland that formed hundreds of years ago when all forests were chopped down to provide wood for salt boiling. There was plenty of salt beneath the town; salt made Lüneburg rich – it was used, amongst other things, to salt Scandinavian herring.
What am I to make of all these stories? Wait and check and see …
And yes, some pinhole photos too …
