During the last part of my wife’s illness I dropped all my writing and filmmaking projects. I want to get back to them now. It isn’t just that I want to work on them; I feel that I need something to focus on now that she is gone. Retrospective One project I want to do… Read Article →
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My movie “Contingency” (https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/filmlist/contingency/) will be shown at the $100 Film Festival 25th Anniversary Retrospective next Wednesday, March 22, 2017. http://www.100dollarfilmfestival.org/festival/retrospective/ I made “Contingency” as a retrospective on the festival for the 20th festival in 2012. It looks back at the festival and the films I made for the festival over the years. I did the film… Read Article →
I finally got my film Contingency posted on-line. Please have a look at it and let me know what you think. I made Contingency for the twentieth $100 Film Festival in 2012. It is a contemplation of how the festival came about. The film won the Best of Alberta Award at the festival. It is… Read Article →
I worked on Contingency this week, but didn’t accomplish as much as I had hoped. I reviewed the video again. I had thought I would need to tweak the images somewhat, but I was happy with the way it already was. I think I might adjust the contrast on a couple of shots. Some of… Read Article →
I completed the conversion of the images I captured for “Contingency” into video files this week. It really was painful. I got about half the images done the week before. For some reason, the last half took more time. I found the technique of overlaying a negative of one image worked well. It was easy… Read Article →
My conversion of Contingency to video moved ahead this week. I have about half of the images converted to video now. I had to overcome a few snags. The whole film runs a bit over 3,800 frames, but since I already have video of some of the shots, I didn’t need to transfer all of… Read Article →
I took another step forward on Contingency this week. I used an optical printer to digitize the images from the film so I could create a video of the film. I will reconstruct a video from the images next. It took me a couple of days down at the CSIF to get the images digitized…. Read Article →
I want to complete the video conversion for Contingency soon. This week I did some preparation to try again. I had worried that I had damaged the film the last time I tried to do the transfer. This week I did an inspection of the films I found some damage. Fortunately, it was only minor… Read Article →
I got some nice comments from people about the award Contingency won at the festival last weekend. It was all very gratifying. Some people suggested I get it into other festivals, but I can’t think of any other festivals where I could submit it. Since the film is focussed on the $100 Festival, other festivals… Read Article →
They screened my film Contingency Saturday night at the $100 Film Festival. The screening went well. They had a good turn out. They moved the festival this year. The last few years it was at the Plaza theatre, but this year they had it at the Alberta College of Art and Design in the Stanford… Read Article →
