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Live Fast, Die Old
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"Live Fast, Die Old" - 640 X 480, 29.97fps, Stereo - 30:32 https://youtu.be/N5Tk_g3doV8 "Live Fast, Die Old": In March &/or April, 1987, I shot a 2 reel super-8mm film by doing single-frame shooting off a tv of 15 hours of my movies presented in chronological order being played by a VHS deck. I was assisted by my girlfriend of the time, Laura A. Trussell. I probably had the camera set to time-lapse. I zoomed in & out so that it wasn't a straight reshoot & Laura & I made transparencies that we put on the screen. Sometimes the transparencies were tracings of something that wd appear in a movie - as such extending the life of a character or shape. Sometimes the transparencies would introduce new characters. This film was made to be projected in conjunction with a VHS edit made at the same time that excerpted from the same material & was for an April 19, 1987 performance at the Hourhaus in BalTimOre of "Eastern Island Bunny booed usic". By a few months later, I'd developed a much more sophisticated & exactingly structured triple-projection performance called "Generic As-Beenism" that was premiered at the Ultimatum II festival in Montréal on September 13, 1987. This involved slides made…
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tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
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tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, time lapse, experimental music, experimental usic, experimental film, experimental video, experimental moviemaking, performance, multiple projection, BalTimOre, Montréal, Pittsburgh, Hourhaus, Ultimatum II, Jefferson Presents
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