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Filmstrips
About this film
"Filmstrips": On January 10, 1996, I moved to Pittsburgh. One of the more interesting shows I participated in that year was an Orgone Cinema presentation of filmstrips on July 26, 1996 at the Silver Eye Gallery. The Orgone folks gave me a filmstrip that they didn't have the soundtrack for & asked me to make a new one. The usual crew of creative weirdos were the participants: Edgar Um Bucholtz, myself (as Anonymous), Fraile Johnsen (Michael Johnsen), Greg Pierce, & Todd Whitman. This show got me interested in reviving filmstrips as a medium so that their more experimental possibilities could be explored. Prior to this, they'd mainly been made for educational & promotional purposes. Shortly after this show, Michael Johnsen & I got together & made this VHS compilation to represent the Filmstrip event. We edited this to make it a thing-unto-tself & took liberties with the material provided by the participants. As such, Greg Pierce's reworking of "Blankets are Big Business" got cut in half timewise with 2 edits. Greg might not've approved this edit if he'd been present when Michael & I worked on this. All in all, I think this is a great repurposed 'ephemera' show &, for me personally, i…
Directors & creators
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE & Michael Johnsen
Subjects
filmstrips, Orgone Cinema, Edgar Um Bucholtz, Anonymous, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Fraile Johnsen, Michael Johnsen, Greg Pierce, Todd Whitman, experimental filmstrips, Silver Eye Gallery
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