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Almanac Trailer
About this film
"Almanac Trailer" edited by Owen O'Toole from the work of 112 filmmakers who contributed to his 1988 "Filmers Almanac" project. The "Filmers Almanac" was a collaborative project conceived of & assembled by Owen O'Toole. Starting possibly as early as 1986 & definitely no later than the beginning of 1987, Owen solicited super-8mm filmmakers worldwide to pick a day in 1988 to shoot one roll of super-8 film. This film was then to be sent to Owen to be used as part of one long "Almanac" for the year. I was a participant as were 111 other filmers. Owen then gave live performances of the "Filmers Almanac" which involved multiple projectors, probably usually just 2, with one of the projectors on a Lazy Susan so he could easily move its projection from one side to the other or overtop of the fixed projection. He also improvised a soundtrack mixing various tapes, as well as the soundtrack on the films that had them. This trailer was made by choosing roughly 4 seconds of footage from each of the movies & editing them in sequence to give people some taste of what the overall footage is like. I've added a brief glimpse of the VHS tape & letter that was part of the package mailed to me. This is…
Directors & creators
Owen O'Toole
Subjects
Owen O'Toole, Filmers Almanac, super-8, collaboration, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE aRCHIVE
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