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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).
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.
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...
Jun 9, 2013 · A documentary about the unsung yet deeply essential craftspeople, collective collaborators in the filmmaking creative process. Directed by Italian filmmaker by Guido Torlonia, and featured in the Open Roads: New Italian Cinema series at NYC's Lincoln Center in June 2013.
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.
Jun 7, 2013 · Director Guido Torlonia and co-writer Laura Delli Colli (Handmade Cinema) and director Giovanna Taviani (The Rescue) in person for Q&As at both screenings!Narrated by Chiara Mastroianni, this loving tribute to the craftsmen and artisans whose invisible hands help create the magic of cinema is brimming with archival footage and behind ...
