Dear Zach et al., This is great! Thank you so much for sharing!
--Robert Schaller > On Apr 20, 2024, at 10:29 AM, Zach Poff <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all. I'm writing to share updates about a project hosted by Mire film lab > in Nantes, FR: Wandering Sounds and Images is a series of creative research > seminars and artist residencies focused on off-grid nomadic cinema > performance (part of the SPECTRAL <https://www.spectral-cinematics.eu/> > collaboration between six artist-run film labs in the EU). > > The research seminars brought together an international team of > artist/experimenters. During three meetings in France, we created portable > technologies for 16mm projection, "magic lantern" projection, and 8-channel > sound diffusion. Mire will offer these tools to resident artists starting > next month. (There are three residencies. Application deadlines for the first > two have passed. Subscribe to Mire's email list > <https://www.mire-exp.org/mirenews-newsletter/> to find out about the third.) > > We also thoroughly documented the project to invite others to build their own > tools based on our designs. We're sharing this documentation on the wiki at > filmlabs.org > <https://www.filmlabs.org/wiki/en/meetings_projects/spectral/mire-wandering/start>. > It's a work-in-progress, but the 16mm projector wiki section > <https://www.filmlabs.org/wiki/en/meetings_projects/spectral/mire-wandering/wandering-16mmprojection/start> > is now good enough to share. Our goal is to transform 16mm projectors into > portable, battery-powered performance instruments. We want to liberate them > from the AC outlet and bring them outside to project film loops & normal > reels with variable speed and brightness, forwards and backwards, and > single-frame. We replaced the shutter with a flashing LED to create a > "virtual shutter" with adjustable angle and # of blades. We modified two > Eumig projectors and one Eiki. (The wiki is based on the Eiki since they are > easy to obtain, but the fundamentals apply to most projectors.) > > To make the project easily reproducible and adaptable, we used an RC car > motor and battery, a common micro-controller and 3D-printed modular parts. > The wiki contains a complete Bill of Materials along with source files for > the micro-controller code and the 3D models. There is a step-by-step > Construction Guide > <https://www.filmlabs.org/wiki/en/meetings_projects/spectral/mire-wandering/wandering-16mmprojection/construction_guide/start>. > I hope our work inspires you to modify your own projector. It was a group > effort, but I'm happy to field questions or direct you to somebody else on > the team who can help you on your journey! > > Find out more: > > Mire's description of SPECTRAL and the Wandering Sounds and Images project: > https://www.mire-exp.org/spectral-2/ <https://www.mire-exp.org/spectral-2/> > My summary of the project (with photos, videos, and wiki links): > https://www.zachpoff.com/artwork/wandering-sounds-and-images/ > <https://www.zachpoff.com/artwork/wandering-sounds-and-images/> > github repo with source code: > https://github.com/z-l-p/film-projector-retrofit > <https://github.com/z-l-p/film-projector-retrofit> > -Zach Poff > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
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