A few new experiments

So I thought I had the whole panoramic in-camera match up thing sorted after my last attempt, but something went very wrong here, and I have a collection of weird layered images.. thought I'd put them up anyway.


The first panoramic from the film which is as-shot...



Crazy ghosting effects...


Interesting colour overlaps...


Portrait and landscape confusion.


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'Live where you play' (Kind of off on a tangent...)

At Pegasus you will find yourself inside a magical land of wonderfulness... the golf course, the matching houses, the equestrian club, the man made heated and treated lake complete with lakeview shopping plaza, the whole suburban package.


Drive about 20 minutes north of Christchurch and you will come to the expensively lit 'Pegasustown' sign, enter here into an abyss of empty, houseless streets and a sea of streetlights. But that's it, there's nothing else there yet.

This is a place of promised potential, nothing more yet than just an idea which many have bought into already.
I visited the model a couple of weeks ago, and it truely amazed me. The 1:100 scale model alone cost over a million dollars, and is the largest town model of its kind in the world. It was built in China and shipped over here in pieces, and contains around 53,000 trees and over 15,000 individual street and building lights!
It looks like something reminiscent of an urban Gregory Crewdson photo set.

What about this place that makes people want to live there? Are people buying a lifestyle? Or the safety and security of a gated community? Is this the perfect example of the suburban dream?

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Curtains

Ever since watching Lost Highway by David Lynch I've been obsessed with them... the red curtain pops up quite frequently, and as the camera slowly pans across its corrugated surface you are eagerly waiting to see what will follow. Curtains are also a loaded symbol when it comes to cinema.
Today the lighting was really strange in our living room, and the curtains had a luminous glow from the bright grey sky outside...


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'Curtains are both hiding and revealing. Sometimes it's so beautiful that they're hiding, it gets your imagination going. But in the theatre, when the curtains open, you have this fantastic euphoria, that you're going to see something new, something will be revealed.'

David Lynch @ Lost on Mulholland Drive

Blue Velvet(1986) Lost Highway(1997)

And more curtains...

Placebo 'Without You I'm Nothing' album cover 1998

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.

New Years Resolutions and Confusion

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"There is never too little light..."

-Helmut Newton