Screening at EPFC North Moberly Fieldhouse
8MM ADVENTURES WITH SANDY McLENNAN
Sunday, July 9: 10 AM – 11 AM
Join us for a special presentation of 8mm films by visiting filmmaker Sandy McLellan. Learn how to load and operate a Regular 8 camera and slit analogue film! Hear about Sandy’s cinematic train trips! Enjoy a selection of handmade 8mm films presented outdoors under the stars. Free event! Refreshments provided. Everyone welcome.
More info on Sandy: https://sandymclennan.com/
Moberly Fieldhouse is located in Moberly Park, 7646 Prince Albert St, Vancouver, BC V5X 3Z4.
PROGRAM INCLUDES…
"At the Public Beach" 2016, 3:30, hand-processed black and white
Regular 8mm, no sound, 16fps.
I live in cottage country, without a cottage. So I go to the nearby
public beach. Shot there on a Kodak Brownie, I cut the exposed film in
to sections and hand-processed it with various developers and bleaches
then slit it in a home-made razor device. After processing, I took the
film back to the beach to play with it in the lake water and sand.
There are reflections of sun on water, rippling waves, parts that feel
like swimming under water and finally it looks like skate trails on
the frozen lake.
“Moving, parts one and two”, 7:43, hand-made print of hand-processed
Double 8, Regular 8 and 16mm, wild sound (start on 3rd hole), 24fps.
Same shot of my house, thinking about moving. Moving out/moving in,
emptying boxes one at a time.
“The Last Skate”, 4:50, 16mm blow-up of hand-processed Regular 8, wild
sound (start at?), 24fps. The end of a decades-rare season for skating
the entirety of smoothly-frozen lakes near home: Regular 8mm Bolex
cameras double-exposing, sometimes a pinhole for a lens,
hand-processed with various recipes and physicalities. The cameras
failed miserably/wonderfully in the cold. Sound is not looped; you
could skate forever. The living lake rumbles just under foot, solid
and liquid. A naturally scary and oh so temporary place on earth.
Spring begins to birth itself from the deep; winter had its turn.
“Line in the Sand”, 4:50, hand-processed Double 8 camera-original,
wild sound (start on square hole), 18fps. With its unique line down
the middle, Double 8mm film is used to reflect on divisions in
thought, purpose, practice; in the world. Shot with lenses and a
pinhole while visiting nearby lake access points, multi-exposed/edited
in-camera and variously hand-processed including a wash in the ice and
sand of the spring-melt lake. Sound is synthesized from pictures of a
depth map of the lake and of the processed film itself (the mid line
like a vinyl record groove) and mixed with location recordings. There
is both a private and a public experience here. Dividing lines appear
and wash away, and persist.