Not celluloid, but I've made a ton of flicker videos.

http://www.dr-yo.com/video_opus_comp.html

http://www.dr-yo.com/video_machina_comp.html

Especially cf. "Lullabye (for postmodern children)", "MANTRA", and "TEMENOS".

I've found that extended screenings of flicker 
films/videos leads to audience fatigue. After 
about 20 minutes, audience members who manage to 
remain in the theater end up in one of three 
states: exhausted, numb, or hypnotized. The third 
state is of course the desired one, but it only 
occurs in about 5% of the audience. That's my 
$0.02 based on a considerable amount of anecdotal 
experience. I'd recommend breaking the screening 
up, maybe with multiple intermissions.

Aaron




At 4/24/2012, you wrote:
>Also relevant to this is Brakhage's "Passage 
>Through: A Ritual" (1990) a rare (for Brakhage) 
>sound film and for my money one of the very most 
>interesting uses of sound around. Fairly 
>long—50 minutes and split onto two reels—the 
>film is "synced" to a sccore by Phillip Corner—a 
>piano improvisation with long portions of 
>mminimal repetition. Against this the film 
>presents single frames and short passages of 
>solid color and occasional imagery that 
>sometimes sync with the punctuation of the image 
>and sometimes precede or follow this punctuation 
>in a completely unpredictable way, creating a 
>very interesting experience in viewing of 
>anticipation and surprise. It is very 
>tempting  to see this amazing work as created in 
>dialog with the works of the "flicker 
>filmmakers," notably Sharits and Kubelka, each 
>with their strong ideas regarding sound/image synchrony.
>
>Steve Polta
>
>--- On Tue, 4/24/12, Fred Camper <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>From: Fred Camper <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Flicker Films
>To: "Mark Toscano" <[email protected]>, 
>"Experimental Film Discussion List" <[email protected]>
>Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 11:18 AM
>
>Oh, and Stan Brakhage's "The Process," combining fragments of photographed
>images with solid-color frames that are rapidly edited.
>
>Fred Camper
>Chicago
>
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