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Hand-painted 35mm film, color, silent, 75 min. Welcome to “Handmade Cinema”—a site that lets you explore the world of artisanal moving image production by providing information on the practices and themes of a sampling of the field’s major figures.
Handmade cinema includes: painted, scratched, and treated film, hand-drawn soundtracks, and the artisanal construction of devices to make moving images (color organs, kinetic sculpture, light show apparatus, analog video synthesizers).
Mar 8, 2013 · Handmade cinema isn’t just something we would experience in art galleries or experimental performances; we can find traces of it in more recent popular films. Zinman mentioned Edgar Wright’s...
Many handmade films and artworks result from collaboration. Light shows and early computer films, in particular, are emblematic practices wherein artists of different backgrounds working together to foster new ways of making images move.
Apr 17, 2020 · Rather than vanishing quietly as digital tools inexorably eclipse analog cinema, the practice of handmade filmmaking has grown steadily more robust over the last decade.
Gregory Zinman’s excellent new book on movies made (or remade) through the direct, often tactile engagement of artists and their filmstrips, video-feedback loops, and myriad other animated oozes and vibrant viscosities, Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts is everything one wants in this age of over-scribbling at the margins ...
HandMade Films. Cofounded by former Beatle George Harrison in 1978, the storied production studio and distribution company HandMade Films gave new life to British cinema in the 1980s, taking chances on risky projects and first-time directors to bring audiences future classics like THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY, WITHNAIL AND I, and Terry Gilliam’s TIME ...
