After seeing a lot of video installations at La Biennale in Venice last month, I got inspired to start making short films again.
It has been more than a year since I edited some footage from my rows and rows of Digital8 tapes from India. That piece, ‘The India Tapes,’ screened in 2006 at Tasveer, a Southeast Asian Women’s film festival here in Seattle. I found the name for my short film really early one morning after recording the clicking and rewinding sounds of my dictaphone in many takes.
Now I see tape effects as built-in options for layering sounds in iMovie. [Noteworthy, is it not?]
Last week a Seattle Times web editor told us to use iMovie and YouTube at a journalists’ class on shooting and editing video for the web. I was like, Really? But doesn’t iMovie’s constant crashing when things get complex bug anyone else?
One answer: keep it short. Sorry for the graininess of the above piece, but I wanted to make it light for downloads.
Tell me what you think of ‘End’? It’s 1 min 15 seconds. And speaking of time…
very inspriring little film capturing the spirit of a metallic, cold early November air. Writing from the center of Western Europe where colors are very similar today, the biggest difference I notice between the two continents is the (pleasurable) absence of siren noise on this of the Atlantic. So much urgency over there… Even in Seattle… The shrill sounds, though, add drama and contrast with the sturdy screw and the dancing tree leaf.
Thanks, Matt.
Speaking of dancing, check out The Dance of the Cherry Trees by John Spillane, a singer/songwriter I got to know in Cork, Ireland. I played it just yesterday for a dear poet friend.