Topic: Speaking of found film... "Instructions for a Light & Sound Machine"

[hookstrapped]

Just came across this on Mubi but it's also on youtube. It's freakin' amazing -- a mash/mix-up of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. All done analog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cq1-zHhlYw

Peter Tacherkassky is the filmmaker.  Most of his stuff uses more obscure film as its source. The description for "The Exquisite Corpus":

"While I derived most of my prior films near exclusively from a single found footage source, The Exquisite Corpus is based on several different films, referencing the surrealist 'exquisite corpse' technique. You’ll find rushes from commercials, an American erotic thriller from the 1980s, a British comedy from the 1960s, a Danish as well as a French porn film (both most likely from the 1970s), an Italian soft-core sex movie from 1979, and a (British?) amateur movie ­– it could be considered a 'nudist film' since there are no explicit sex scenes but all the actors run around naked, for no immediately obvious reason."

[Francois]

Somehow, it reminds me of Edmund Alleyn's Introscaphe1 movie... but I sadly can't find it anywhere since it was part of an installation device that produced a multisensory experience.

[Bryan]

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is one of my favorite films.  I felt like I was watching The Good, The Bad, and  Eraserhead. 

[hookstrapped]

Another one, using The Entity (a 1981 "supernatural thriller" with Barbara Hershey) as the source material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4mgxLG756g

All done analog with an optical printer. This one also features photograms with a nod to Man Ray

[hookstrapped]

So I searched for videos explaining how he does this stuff. Found a few short bits. He's apparently big in the Spanish-speaking world!

I thought the reference I read of him optically printing meant he used an optical printer (a fancy piece of equipment), but he uses a meter-long piece of wood with nails sticking up for the perforations, special film stock so he can use a red light and sort of see what he's doing, and laser pointers and film enlargers for the light source, and cardboard and leather masks. He uses a meter-long 50-frame (2 second long) strip of film at a time, contact-exposing them up to 7 times. Then he hand develops each strip. It's insane

[Bryan]

Using nails to line up the sprocket holes would explain the shaky registration. 

[Domingo A. Siliceo]

[...]
He's apparently big in the Spanish-speaking world!
[...]

maybe, but I’ve never heard nothing about him.

[hookstrapped]

[...]
He's apparently big in the Spanish-speaking world!
[...]

maybe, but I’ve never heard nothing about him.

In the avant-garde film enthusiast Spanish-speaking world 

[Domingo A. Siliceo]

[...]
He's apparently big in the Spanish-speaking world!
[...]

maybe, but I’ve never heard nothing about him.

In the avant-garde film enthusiast Spanish-speaking world 

aaaaaaah... that world...   

[Francois]

He also made Outer Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l4Q99ibQmc

And here's a documentary on how he works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VulqlWA8K7M
This is really a painstaking process.