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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.
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...
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).
Synthetic film-sound practice transforms the film apparatus from a reproductive medium into a productive one, and simultaneously blurs the epistemological distinction between hearing and seeing in a way that recasts the very nature of cinematic engagement.
Mapping the genealogy of handmade film, and uncovering confluences, influences, and interstices between various international movements, sites, and practices, Process Cinema positions the resurgence of handmade and process cinema as a counter-practice to the rise of digital filmmaking.
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 ...