Actually, in my junior year in high school in 1970 we did something like
this. The art teacher had obtained some lengths of clear 16mm film, and
exposed black 16mm film. We cut it up and gave it to various class members
to draw, scratch, color at will. One guy's dad had some 16mm Korean War
film, so we edited scenes of flamethrowers attacking bunkers and lines of
POWs in with our orginal artwork. Taped some garage band rock and roll to
play behind it, and the whole class had a blast. (literally) Gosh, I just
realized how artistically uptight I am in my old age!

>>  Anyway, there is a genre of experimental film in which the artists just
lays the film out and stamps, paints, and scratches it, then processes it
sloppily and awaits the surprises in projection.  Film frames are ignored.
Registration is ignored.  In this spirit I am making a pinhole movie with a
cardboard box.  My stamped images will fall hither and thither and jump
around the screen upon projection.


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