The Incredible Hulk and the Kodak lady

Constructed scene from the same film reel, though it never happened.

Adventures through a plastic viewfinder

Dunedin, Milton and somewhere near Cromwell

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Merging time

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Playing with the layering of sequential images; this here is 6 frames overlapping from a zoom/fade out from the letter 'o' surrounded by crazy 'matrix' letter goo, to a castle on a hill scene. Time is disrupted and motion exists in one single frame. This image represents 1/4 second at a film rate of 24 images per second. Is the movement still apparent when overlayed like this?

The Matrix(pt2)

A couple more sequencial scans....

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The Matrix, Reprinted?

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A couple of weeks ago I bought this reel of film from a guy at the Radio one market day.. he said it was a trailer for a Matrix film, and he gave it to me for $2.
I don't know why, but I knew I had to have it.
I saw in this giant roll of film, the endless possibilities to play with and feed my obsession with the collision between photography and cinema.

-Seeing a movement broken down into single frames is fascinating.. something which can be then seen as a static image, or a photographic still. I could print individual frames...

-The positive transparency of the film seems to eminate a glow, unlike negative film, and the colours are luminescent even from the first quick scan.

<--- This here is what a fade transition looks like on film! The gradient seems so gradual, yet it takes about 12 frames to complete a full fade to black.

-It also illustrates the action, each frame a fragment of a second, though when i scanned in individual frames i could see motion blur.

-An exploration in progress!

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New experiments..

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Ās a continuation of work last year, I am focusing conceptually on the relationship between photography and cinema, trying to make sense of it all.
(more concept-based work for this on my research blog- www.emilyhlavac09.blogspot.com).
In parallel to this, i am exploring the use of film, manipulating the camera and image within the viewfinder. These particular images I took with a120 back holga,using 35mm film in order to expose the entire film, sprockets and all, to the light. It takes a bit of playing around, using rubber bands (or hair ties if you have no rubber bands like me) and cotton balls, plus a bit of electrical tape just to fit the smaller film size so that it winds on properly. As 35mm has no paper backing, the film counter window has to be covered, and film advance done by guesswork. Afterwards the camera has to be opened up in the dark, and film wound back into the original canister. So I was trying to create one seemless panoramic image, but ended up with the gaps between images getting bigger as the circumference of the takeup reel got bigger. Wasn't prepared for this! Next time i will reduce the amount of film advance with each image.