Film, reel and security cameras

Falkirk Voodoo King Kenny, with email scam and dog jokes, 17 minutes 14 seconds, silent

The characters in the film:
Jayson Blair, journalist
King Kenny, deceased Falkirk resident
George Washington, deceased Falkirk resident
The Banker, Ken Morgan
Director of Private Accounts, Emma Bambara
The Tenant, Roman Polanski
Elaine
Olga

(Jayson Blair is a journalist who was forced to resign from the New York Times in May 2003, after he was caught plagiarizing and fabricating elements of his stories.)

I’ll be adding more on this soon. I am putting together the reel today and shot some slides from Isabel’s collection, which I will transfer to video and add in Dan Mailer’s anniversary video. And then the VHS tapes. Then we’ll place in the artists’ video. I’ll upload the full program this week; we had an idea to put the reel in the community room too and are investigating piggy-backing the reel onto the security channel that runs through the apartments. Janie discovered the security door system is viewable on the residents’ TVs so they can see who is visiting. We are looking to see if there is a back-up channel that we can use, so the reel might appear through this, so it becomes a private TV station. I don’t know yet if we can pull this off.

As I was filming Isabel’s collection one of the slides fell into the mechanism and projected this interesting shot, which I’ve added here, accompanied by a still from the film for Meddle…

By the way Isabel’s collection is great; it’s a whole lifetime in there, someone in her family was a prolific photographer. I think it was her husband.

Untitled (sexyback, foley artist), (2008) my film about Justin Timberlake, silver foil, Olga’s House of Shame and a whole load of hellish noises is screening in Brazil in August, it’s at File 2008.

The reel for High Rise Cinema, I’ve added San Francisco-based Scottish artist Anne Colvin’s piece Cracked Actor (2006) as a connection to the first edition of The Village Voice magazine and to relate its title to the performances in my film. It’s also a great rock and roll moment, and will have resonance with the music event at BiF.

The final program for the reel will be here shortly.