Technical knowledges & human souvenirs about of analogue film practise resulting from the project RE MI
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+ | **by Els van Riel** | ||
+ | When Aurélie Percevault asked me to come over to Nantes for 3 weeks to work on the Debrie printer at MIRE, I immediately said yes. Anyone who attended **[[expanding-film-communities: | ||
+ | Since long I was longing to work with a real 16mm contact printer. And figure out the limits of our Brussels' | ||
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+ | I had new prints to make for my 16mm installation work entitled OMER. | ||
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+ | And since some time I walk around with one specific idea that needs printing and reprinting. And reprinting. | ||
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+ | The opportunity to experiment with MIRE's DEBRIE to start exploring this idea came right in time. To be given 3 weeks to spend in MIRE and Nantes is what I consider grand luxury. THANK YOU!! | ||
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+ | ==== Monday 21-08 ==== | ||
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+ | Driving Brussels-Nantes.\\ | ||
+ | I’m used to use public transport much more then highways and wonder why people complain about traffic jams. Not one I had. Not even at the Paris ringway. | ||
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+ | At 7pm, Aurélie is there to welcome me with a tour in the lab, the keys of the lab and the studio, and a light dinner. How lovely to be in Nantes again. Feeling home already. Good memories of passed Bains Argentiques meeting filling the mind up again. | ||
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+ | ==== Tuesday 22-08 ==== | ||
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+ | Introduction to the machine DEBRIE TIPRO. In french a machine is feminin. Une machine. I wonder why.\\ | ||
+ | I make it run a few times, but only with amorse. It sounds great. The switch buttons need a bit of force. The physical attraction is there. | ||
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+ | I see where to find the chemistry, which baths and Lomotanks to be used. I make it myself comfortable in the MIRE lab.\\ | ||
+ | There is also the area to discover again, some admin to be done and a fridge to be filled up. | ||
+ | Lunch with Aurélie, Cathy and Miles. The MIRE trio back at work after their summer time off. Perfect timing. | ||
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+ | ==== Wednesday 23-08 ==== | ||
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+ | Debrie Trials and Errors with a negativ close to the original of OMER, but to be used and abused. | ||
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+ | ==== Thursday 24-08 ==== | ||
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+ | The Debrie is stubborn from time to time, eats the perforations, | ||
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+ | I try different ways. | ||
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+ | The day ends with a lovely courtyard dinner with some more MIRE filmlab fanatics, and a short informal presentation of my work. | ||
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+ | ==== Friday 25-08 ==== | ||
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+ | More tests, different filters, different negativs, different results | ||
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+ | ==== Saturday 26-08 ==== | ||
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+ | Results with the actual OMER negativ. I make enough prints for the rest of its life. I hope. Or not. | ||
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+ | ==== Sunday 27-08 ==== | ||
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+ | Needing air and summer light, I stayed away from the darkroom and went for a bicycle ride in the countryside at 30°C. Following the river Sèvre but blocked because of a sudden very different world: horse races. A horse, the most beautiful creature. I do understand the love for horses, I don’t see why making them race. | ||
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+ | Ending the day with a Hitchcock 35mm projection in the lovely Le Cinématographe cinema. A Woman Vanishes. | ||
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+ | ==== Monday 28-08 ==== | ||
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+ | BUCHSTABE is a word that blows my mind. It gives me headspace. Empty space in the head, to fill it up with new points of view. | ||
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+ | LETTER-LETTRE-CHARACTER-EPISTOLY---\\ | ||
+ | A word for a letter that finds its origin in the history of writing and printing. There was a time when if something was Written it was considered Truth. Only because nothing much was written I guess. | ||
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+ | In Brussels, to prepare the residency, I made a kinéscopage of the word. White on black. In different languages.\\ | ||
+ | Idea is to make the printing process of the word BUCHSTABE as the tension span of a filmwork.\\ | ||
+ | By double exposure of both negative and positive on the very same print. And this as many times as possible. pinling up.In the end. | ||
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+ | We’ll see what happens. | ||
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+ | ==== Tuesday 29-08 ==== | ||
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+ | Tests and more tests.\\ | ||
+ | Taking time in between when tests are drying to go out for walks through Nantes. | ||
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+ | ==== Wednesday 30-08 ==== | ||
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+ | More tests and tests.\\ | ||
+ | Discover the lovely pancakes, the renewed museum of contemporary art. | ||
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+ | The riverside, the fountain kids. | ||
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+ | ==== Thursday 31-08 ==== | ||
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+ | One more test and preparing for the evening show.\\ | ||
+ | What an honour to see my filmwork in combination with G.Sherwin’s At the Academy, S.Lawder’s Necrology and Colorfilm. | ||
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+ | Lovely evening, with all good people of Nantes, ending in a local bar with ‘la jeunesse de Nantes and a ukulele’ | ||
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+ | (Photo' | ||
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+ | ==== Friday 1-09 ==== | ||
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+ | One day off to the seaside, with James Snazell. | ||
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+ | Last year after Bains Argentiques, | ||
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+ | The statue made in honour of his character was disappointing though. What a mistake.\\ | ||
+ | A long walk along the beaches towards the sunset wasn’t. | ||
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+ | Home at midnight and exhausted. | ||
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+ | ==== Saturday 2-09 ==== | ||
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+ | A short lab visit and another day off and out in city of Nantes.\\ | ||
+ | Nantes has something with chimneys. They are very present and seem to grow as if natural. Due to new buildings being build higher and higher I was told by a local stove technician. | ||
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+ | A Charlemagne Palestine concert in open air at the annual end summer Jazz meetings, and a drink in a bar opposite Le Cinématographe called Le Méliès. | ||
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+ | ==== Sunday 3-09 ==== | ||
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+ | Long Sunday morning, cleaning up, making new chemistry, preparing BUCHSTABE | ||
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+ | ==== Monday 4-09 ==== | ||
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+ | Back to work. Only one week left. Time! | ||
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+ | First tests | ||
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+ | ==== Tuesday 5-09 ==== | ||
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+ | 3D appears. How to proceed and print deeper and deeper. | ||
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+ | ==== Wednesday 6-09 ==== | ||
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+ | When is white white and where does it become grey and darker to black? | ||
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+ | Mistakes lead to different tracks. | ||
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+ | ==== Thursday 7-09 ==== | ||
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+ | Different tracks lead to new ideas.\\ | ||
+ | New ideas lead to new tracks.\\ | ||
+ | Infinite possibilities. | ||
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+ | IMPLEX | ||
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+ | ==== Friday 8-09 ==== | ||
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+ | Back to the first idea. End of time approaching. | ||
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+ | I prepare for a short showing of the results in the evening, and the unevitable AU REVOIR. | ||
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+ | ==== Saturday 9-09 ==== | ||
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+ | Packing the lab, cleaning up, saying goodby. To both Aurélie and MIRE and Nantes. | ||
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+ | Talks about how to proceed if I want to come back to maybe some day finish this piece. | ||
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+ | ==== Sunday 10-09 ==== | ||
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+ | Ride back home.\\ | ||
+ | Now only one short trafic jam at the Paris ringway. | ||
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+ | Summer 2017 is gone. | ||
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