Hi Chris,
Tortured Dust is hot spliced. Stan rarely used tape. One notable exception I
came across was Blood's Tone, from the trilogy Bluewhite/Blood's Tone/Vein. I
imagine he did that one with that as a sort of experiment at a time when tape
wasn't as commonly used (mid-'60s). Some of the late films with minimal
editing occasionally employ tape, as do some of the painted originals.
Lovesong 4 has a few tape splices, but this is also because the original for
Lovesong 4 is on polyester stock, which you can't cement splice.
Stan started using the 2 frames (or sometimes 1 frame) of black at every cut
sometime in the late '60s, though not for every single film. I know Deus Ex
just has shot to shot splices, but can't remember about the other two
Pittsburgh Trilogy films. But by the early '70s, it became really common for
him to do so, and eventually it was something he seems to have done nearly
without exception.
I believe that method, though on one hand effectively hiding the splice itself,
also created a different kind of edit/cut effect, which was akin to an eyeblink
more than a hard cut. Perhaps Fred or Marilyn can expand on this. It does
feel different, and I imagine with Stan's deep interest in the qualities and
properties of human vision, this effect was probably quite important to the
overall reception of the films.
It's really unbelievable to see - in some of the films with absurdly heavy
cutting - the black frames inserted at *every single splice* like that. The
photo I put up on the blog showing a bit of Tortured Dust pt 2 is pretty
representative of its more heavily cut passages. Lots of clusters of 1-4
frames surrounded by two frames of black...
Mark
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From: Chris Kennedy <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 6:48 AM
Subject: [Frameworks] new post on Brakhage
Hi Mark,
Is Tortured Dust spliced with tape or hot splicing?
And is Brakhage's signature method of using two frames of black leader a way
to hide the splice in a single-roll of hot-spliced original or just a way to
pop out the image on screen a bit more (or a little of both)?
Best,
Chris
On 2/25/12 9:14 AM, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]> wrote:
From: Mark Toscano
It's
> fairly dorky, but in case anyone's curious, I posted something about Stan
> Brakhage and a little about his use of color negative stocks at my
> unpredictably updated blog:
http://preservationinsanity.blogspot.com
This
> post was specifically inspired by going through the original for his film Max
> (2002) the other day.
Comments most welcome.
thanks,
Mark T
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