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Silence

format:	5 min. Hand-processed Super-8 Film
logline:	An exploration of what silence means and what it looks like.
press:	"To date, this is the best experimental film out there." Rory L. Aronsky-Film Threat.com
synopsis:	Voices in an audio collage ponder the meaning of silence. If they would just be quiet for one second, you might have a chance to think about it yourself. Images of broken instrument, waves lapping the shore, and a stroll though a cemetary create a meditative backdrop.
production notes:	This film was created while taking a class at the Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco. The instructor, Ken Paul Rosenthal, is a master of hand-processing which involves removing the Super-8 film from the cartidge (using a hammer in a dark room), unspooling the film and shoving it into a can used for processing 35mm slide film. The chemicals are poured in and the can is shaken. In less than an hour, the newly deveolped film can be wound on a reel an projected, giving a very viceral and immediate quality to filmmaking. The process intruduces marks on the surface of the film from overlapping and scratching. A violent shake produces a violent, angry image, and vice versa.