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!
Well, and so it turns out that the next stop for my film is … Rome!!
And this is how it happened: Lüneburg and the Lüneburg Heath provided me with lots of great images, information, Melusines … but not really any clue as to where to go next.
Until I went to the outdoor swimming pool. A wonderful natural swimming pool (“Aquadies”) – it was open for its last day and the weather was still summery. Only the water was freezing cold, 18° … but never mind!
And what did I find in the pool shop? A Melusine ring! A mood ring complete with an explanation for just €4.50! I bought it straight away … and my first mood is deep blue. That means “romantic”. I’m not feeling particularly romantic, but where does the word come from? From Rome! So I have to go to Rome!
The photo I took the day before, with the ‘Weg / path’ signs, also points to this, because many roads lead to Rome!
And then I also like to read everything backwards, which gives me ‘Mor’ – suggesting the moor, but also ‘mother’ (Swedish) and ‘death’ (from the Latin prefix mor-). Also the name of the swimming pool means “Water Days” or “Days of Water”!! Which leads me somehow again to Melusine who I threw into the Atlantic … And more … la mère … la mer … the dead moor …
I think I’ve got a bucketful of inspiration!
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 …
