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Moving Image
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Original Format
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Super 8 film; Plus-X, Tri-X, Kodachrome 40
Duration
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4:08
Context
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The footage was shot around Toronto between 1991-1993. I have retained the original 1995 edit reflecting my then obsessions with film grain, macro body parts, explosive color and time exposure. My 2010 edit involved a switch of two musical pieces.
I believe that's Sparky providing vocals wearing his then famous long-johns with either Lindsay or Gar on drums. I actually projected this one evening live at Bread Spreads long ago to a "slightly" inebriated crowd. Quite surreal.
Technical:
I utilized the German Leicina (Leica) Special Super 8 camera with the superb optics of the Schnieder 10mm Cinegon Macro.
The combination of manual time exposure ( 3 seconds per frame) in conjunction with interval of 0.5 seconds between frames produced what I called the Francis Bacon Screaming Pope effect. I shot close to 300-500 frames that evening of various musicians at Sneaky Dee's long ago. The organic "fluid-ness" was produced by the long exposures which froze people in approximately three positions interconnected my "streaks" in each frame. The same technique was utilized regarding the fireworks but in glorious Kodachrome. My infant son was a labour of love captured by handheld macro shots.
The slow motion effect was achieved by setting the transfer playback at approximately 5 frames per second in the film/digital transfer bay.
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Title
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Silly Billy
Description
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This is my experimental 1995 film "Silly Billy" starring my infant son, fireworks and various musicians including Grant Buffett, Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet and various bicycle courier bands.
Creator
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Nicholas Kovats
Contributor
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Nicholas Kovats
Date
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1993-1994
Coverage
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Ontario Place, Sneaky Dee's
Source
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Nicholas Kovats <br /><a href="https://vimeo.com/25466819" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://vimeo.com/25466819</a>
Format
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MP4
Rights
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Terminal Beach Productions - Nicholas Kovats
Type
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film
1993
1994
Grant Buffett
Ontario Place
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
Sneaky Dee's
Terminal Beach Productions