Footloose and Fancy-Free

So I'm about to start a new film. Yeah, and all my film-making buddies are all like "OMG". Like I pooped out a box of Raisinettes. In the box. F*&^ing magic. But it's not like I wasn't working on films before now, but they were all treatments that I couldn't get funded into production phase, and were more complex than my gorilla-homebrew lunacy.

I tried for at least a year and a half on one project, and then created a series of paintings based on the treatment - so that at least for now I could gain closure on a project I may not be able to make in the way I want with the resources available. I'm fussy like that.

That series was entitled 'mother' and exhibited in Sydney, Australia in October last year. I have published a pdf of the collection and you can view that here. I'm pleased with the outcome and hope that in time I will be able to re-exhibit the works, and also exhume the original project when the time and situation is right for that to proceed.

The new project, however, is completely different. I've decided to go back to direct film processes and work on 35mm neg. So I will be painting and scratching neg and then doing a digital inter to produce my pos final. Living up the street from Sydney's biggest lab = bonus. Being able to scare staff by rocking up in my bathrobe = awesome. Actually doing it? Well, after several months in production, I hardly notice shit like that.


I've got to do my timing sheets first - which will take weeks, most likely. It's a frustrating and slow process. But it's very meaningful. I can't create without this paper-based notation system. So I'm off to get my dopesheets on. For fun and potential interest, here is one of my previous sheets

I only really care about percussive sound and other aspects of musicality when I do visual music so this is the kind of basic notation I work with before I start to animate. Once I do start working, I tend to scribble all over these with adjustments, notations, and other stuff like ugly stick figures. It helps to pass the time.

In any case this is the vortex of my life for the next month or so. Bye!