Movies: Scratch film

  • 1949
    Begone Dull Care

    Begone Dull Care (1949)

    Begone Dull Care

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    In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip. The result is a vivid interpretation, in fluid lines and colour, of jazz music played by the Oscar Pe...

    Begone Dull Care
  • 1955
    Blinkity Blank

    Blinkity Blank (1955)

    Blinkity Blank

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    A playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the retina of the eye, McLaren engraves pictures on blank film creating vivid, percussive effects....

    Blinkity Blank
  • 2024
    Hummingbird

    Hummingbird (2024)

    Hummingbird

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    Could film gelatin, a 16mm film camera, 3 lenses and film developing chemistry experimentation act as messengers between the spirit and the physical world? a one day trip to the remote town of Panguipulli (Chile) seeks to explore possibilities and to...

    Hummingbird
  • 1998
    The Albatross

    The Albatross (1998)

    The Albatross

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    A ship sets sail on an epic voyage through malignant natural and supernatural elements from which one man alone survives. An adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustrated by19th Century wood engravings which are ...

    The Albatross
  • 1981
    Tal Farlow

    Tal Farlow (1981)

    Tal Farlow

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    Lye created a series of scratched images in the 1950s – more regular or geometric than his usual style – to accompany Rock ‘n’ Rye, a track by jazz guitarist Tal Farlow, but he did not get far with the editing. He returned to the material in 1980 but...

    Tal Farlow
  • 1966
    Op Hop/Hop Op

    Op Hop/Hop Op (1966)

    Op Hop/Hop Op

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    A hand-made, scratched-on film experiment in intermittent animation. The images are a group of twenty-four visuals, all non-representational, which arrange and rearrange on the screen in many combinations. The result is a changing pattern of sound an...

    Op Hop/Hop Op
  • 1967
    Plus Minus

    Plus Minus (1967)

    Plus Minus

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    A short avant-garde film from Finnish director Eino Ruutsalo....

    Plus Minus
  • 2000
    Scratch

    Scratch (2000)

    Scratch

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    In Scratch both the animation and the soundtrack are abstract. The movie is a conversation of sounds and images. Soundtrack and animation are scratched directly on 35 mm film....

    Scratch
  • 1998
    When you’re asleep

    When you’re asleep (1998)

    When you’re asleep

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    This little film, which juxtaposes animated sand and scratching on 16mm film, was made during studies at the Royal College of Art. The starting point of this film was the sentence "but it's always when you're asleep that I want to talk to you", read ...

    When you’re asleep
  • 2013
    Consumed

    Consumed (2013)

    Consumed

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    A parable of fire and grace, hand-scratched on 16mm, frame-by-frame....

    Consumed
  • 2003
    Cameras Take Five

    Cameras Take Five (2003)

    Cameras Take Five

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    The enduring romance of the lines. A visual exploration of Dave Brubeck's jazz classic "Take Five"....

    Cameras Take Five
  • 2006
    Light Work Mood Disorder

    Light Work Mood Disorder (2006)

    Light Work Mood Disorder

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    Film artist Jennifer Reeves and musician Anthony Burr collaborated to make this live film and music performance, which mixes and subverts symbols of science, industry, medicine and madness. Up to 4 screens and 4 channels of multi-layered music immers...

    Light Work Mood Disorder
  • 1969
    Is A Thresh Hold

    Is A Thresh Hold (1969)

    Is A Thresh Hold

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    A 16mm experiment using negatives, hand-scratched film, and the rhythm of manual editing to call upon the experience of moments beyond reality....

    Is A Thresh Hold
  • 1985
    Absence of Satan

    Absence of Satan (1985)

    Absence of Satan

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    A beautiful woman screams at something unseen off camera. Paul Newman appears eating salad and soon the famous sequence of Paul Newman closing a car door cut with a helicopter takes place. Absence of Satan is probably one of George Barber's best Scra...

    Absence of Satan
  • 2003
    Minuet

    Minuet (2003)

    Minuet

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    An essay in colour harmonics and visual overtones. Conceived and produced as part of the Images Film Festival's Minute Movies....

    Minuet