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Where We're
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"Where We're" is probably one of the strangest movies ever made. Even beginning to explain & describe it is problematic for me. I strung together found filmstrips, found 35mm film, & my own filmstrips into one long filmstrip that's over 2 hours when projected just as that. It seems likely to me that it's the only feature-length experimental filmstrip — or that it, at least, was so at the time I made it from October, 1998, to December, 1999. At 1st, it was just the filmstrip & its soundtrack. However, I couldn't resists adding to it & making more versions. For the 2nd version I projected the strip as a 35mm film in 16 different ways. This was something I could do because I was the projectionist at a museum. These projections were recorded on VHS. The filmstrip was also transferred to VHS & the 2 types of footage were edited together. I made 2 trailers that became the 3rd & 4th versions. In the meantime, I was giving Generic Tours using some of the same language that was in the filmstrip soundtrack. These ended with a showing of the filmstrip. The 1st of these Tours was in Windsor, Ontario toward the end of 1999. I incorporated footage shot of that tour (by Monty Cantsin Amen!) into…
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tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
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Where We're, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Generic Tours, Burning Man, etta cetera, electronic music, filmstrips, experimental filmstrips, experimental feature filmstrip, John Evans, Phat Mandee
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