Re: [Frameworks] Homemade fixer?

2020-10-12 Thread Robert Schaller
Sodium Thiosulfate is sold as a dechlorinating agent for aquariums and swimming pools. Maybe you could find some that way? > On Oct 11, 2020, at 3:46 AM, Nicole Baker wrote: > > Hello experimental film friends! > I find myself currently residing in Central Asia and struggling to obtain >

Re: [Frameworks] Quote of the Day

2020-05-06 Thread Robert Schaller
Thank you, Francisco! That's probably what it was. Evolutionary Psychology of Henri Laborit, not Sociobiology of E.O. Wilson. Not dissimilar projects though, it would seem. > On May 5, 2020, at 11:56 AM, Francisco Torres wrote: > > Could be the American Uncle by Resnais. Which if I recall

Re: [Frameworks] Quote of the Day

2020-05-04 Thread Robert Schaller
Torres wrote: > > What bothered me the most was- > ''We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions...'' > ''We''? Also I do not see ''stone age emotions'' as negative, we may > need more of those and less ''civilization''. > > 2020-05-03 19:51 GMT-04:00

Re: [Frameworks] Quote of the Day

2020-05-03 Thread Robert Schaller
I just read a story in the Thousand and One Nights, in which a prince survives many disasters in which others die, and was judged blameless because "so it was written." I thought, that's an awfully convenient thing to be able to say if you happen to be one of those on top already! Then I read

Re: [Frameworks] How do people encode DVDs for international distribution? NTSC / PAL?

2020-01-10 Thread Robert Schaller
Thanks for all the helpful advice! --RS > On Jan 5, 2020, at 8:33 AM, FrameWorks Admin wrote: > > Dear Taka, > For your films in distribution for public screening (16mm prints at Light > Cone etc) the speed is correct of course. > At Re:Voir we are just selling the DVDs you produce in Tokyo

Re: [Frameworks] Pageant lenses for 'Empire' screening

2017-03-08 Thread Robert Schaller
I have identical 1" lenses. Contact me at robert at robertschaller d0t org if you still need them. Robert On Wed, March 8, 2017 10:09 am, David Sherman wrote: > We are looking to borrow/rent for a pair of matched 1"-1.5" lenses for a > Pageant projectors for screening of Warhol's compete

[Frameworks] 2017 Handmade Film Institute Summer Programs

2017-01-24 Thread Robert Schaller
Pacific Northwest Film Camp June 3 - 11, 2017 Spend a week on beautiful Orcas Island, WA investigating celluloid film as a physical medium, learning to make your own emulsion, exploring various hand-processing techniques, and pushing the creative and aesthetic limits of the handmade

[Frameworks] Cinemalab (formerly Western Cine) ceases photochemical operations

2016-02-16 Thread Robert Schaller
In the end, it happened suddenly. There had been difficult negotiations with an avaricious landlord for a few months. It looked like it would be worked out, that there were at least three months before any move would need to be contemplated, but some ten days ago the landlord arbitrarily

Re: [Frameworks] storing chemistry

2016-02-10 Thread Robert Schaller
Hi Katherine! It's certainly better if they don't freeze, to say the least! I've never actually had film chemicals freeze, but I have noticed that solutions that are concentrated, like black and white reversal clearing bath, tend to fall out of solution when stored at 50°F, and that what

Re: [Frameworks] Eclipse on film

2016-02-09 Thread Robert Schaller
I'm not looking at the whole thread, but I have to recommend one of my favorite films, Peter Rose's "The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough," which has a whole segment of people watching a solar eclipse. On Tue, February 9, 2016 11:15 am, graeme hogg wrote: > > > Our recent 'Film That Buys The

Re: [Frameworks] Patterns in a Mind's Eye: Seeing the Unnamable

2015-11-21 Thread Robert Schaller
screening. Is there a listing > somewhere (e.g. on a website) that lists the actual films to be screened? Are > these all films by you or are films by others included? It's hard (for me) to > tell from this posting... > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Robert Schaller <rob...@ontosmedi

[Frameworks] Patterns in a Mind's Eye: Seeing the Unnamable

2015-11-20 Thread Robert Schaller
Patterns in a Mind's Eye: Seeing the Unnamable Please join experimental filmmaker and composer Robert Schaller as he presents a collection of short impressionistic works for film and live music that explore the relationship of mind, body, and world. The program ranges from the filmmaker's

[Frameworks] Handmade Film Institute Events 2015 (with links!)

2015-03-08 Thread Robert Schaller
Pacific Northwest Film Camp http://www.handmadefilm.org/classes/orcas/ June 20 - 28, 2015 Spend a week on beautiful Orcas Island, WA investigating celluloid film as a physical medium, learning to make your own emulsion, exploring various hand-processing techniques, and pushing the creative and

[Frameworks] Handmade Film Institute Events 2015

2015-03-06 Thread Robert Schaller
Pacific Northwest Film Camp June 20 - 28, 2015 Spend a week on beautiful Orcas Island, WA investigating celluloid film as a physical medium, learning to make your own emulsion, exploring various hand-processing techniques, and pushing the creative and aesthetic limits of the handmade

Re: [Frameworks] If you want Kodak hicon, order it now

2014-09-30 Thread Robert Schaller
7302, black and white print stock, works well for photograms, and it's orthochromatic like 7363. Big minimum quantity, but considering the way things are going having a big supply laid away is not such a bad idea! Sound track films are also appropriate -- is Kodak's 7378? Other companies make

Re: [Frameworks] If you want Kodak hicon, order it now

2014-09-29 Thread Robert Schaller
I received a call last week informing me that Kodak was now shipping backorders, and I had a long talk with the representative who called; she had been there a long time, and commiserated with me about the discontinuation of 7363 and a bunch of other stocks that she named. She was unhappy about

Re: [Frameworks] Processing Plus X negative in D76

2014-09-11 Thread Robert Schaller
I've always processed Plus X negative with undiluted D76 for 6 minutes @20 degrees C. I can't really speak to reducing contrast -- I haven't really had that problem! Diluting the developer would reduce the contrast, it seems, but then I can't recommend a time. On Thu, September 11, 2014 9:09

Re: [Frameworks] films using the optical printer

2014-08-08 Thread Robert Schaller
I second Peter Rose's The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough and Martin Arnold's early films. I'd also suggest my own films Triptych and To the Beach, which was made with a JK for which a friend (Chris Healer) and I wrote our sequencing program. ___

Re: [Frameworks] 16mm Moviola for sale, Boston Area

2014-03-24 Thread Robert Schaller
Is there a place to get silver nitrate and potassium bromide in LA? Thanks for any recommendations! On Mar 24, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Scott Dorsey klu...@panix.com wrote: Scott, when the Zombie Apocalypse comes, you will find that old film junk to be very valuable. You can use a turned over 6

Re: [Frameworks] EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

2014-01-06 Thread Robert Schaller
Kim, Do you have an email address where we can reach you off-list? Thanks, Robert Schaller On Jan 6, 2014, at 9:11 AM, Ken Paul Rosenthal kenpaulrosent...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello Kim, Please send me a fee waiver. Thank you, Ken Paul Rosenthal

Re: [Frameworks] Cyanotype?

2013-07-03 Thread Robert Schaller
Kate, I've found that Cyanotype absorbs effectively into film that still has its original gelatin on it, that is, already processed film or clear leader that is just fixed and still has gelatin. Just soak the film in cyanotype solution, and let it dry in a dark place. But as Brian says, it's

Re: [Frameworks] Liquid Light onto clear 16mm - any tips?

2013-06-01 Thread Robert Schaller
sub for acetate or polyester would be great, and I'm very interested to hear any thoughts about it! Has anyone translated Nicky's patent into a usable recipe? --Robert Schaller On May 31, 2013, at 8:37 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote: What temperature are you developing at? Have you tried moving

Re: [Frameworks] Free Film Workshop in SF Sunday June 2nd

2013-05-29 Thread Robert Schaller
Sounds great, Eric! Wish I could come! On May 29, 2013, at 2:32 PM, eric stewart wrote: ELEMENTS OF IMAGE MAKING Free Film Workshop GOT MY ION YOU This Sunday June 2nd @ Noisebridge 2169 Mission st. 4pm This Sunday, GOT MY ION YOU!!! Our pun-themed investigation of material and

Re: [Frameworks] painted film finisher

2013-05-27 Thread Robert Schaller
I'd like to second the internegative idea. If your work is done, then take it to a lab, have a contact internegative struck, and sit in on the timing session to ensure that the colors are just the way you want them. Or, and here is an opportunity for more creative work, if you have access to a

[Frameworks] Robert Schaller Film Show, 3/20/13, Jamestown, CO

2013-03-18 Thread Robert Schaller
Dear Frameworkers, I'm showing a selection of my films at the Jamestown Town Hall at 7 pm on Wednesday, March 20, in Jamestown, Colorado (about ten miles northwest of Boulder, Colorado). It's a benefit for the local elementary school ($5 admission). If anyone can make it, you're invited!

[Frameworks] Handmade Film Institute Summer Events 2013

2013-02-07 Thread Robert Schaller
Summer 2013 at the Handmade Film Institute Pacific Northwest Film Camp July 6 - 14, 2013 Spend a week on beautiful Orcas Island, WA investigating the physical medium and chemical underpinnings of celluloid film, learning to make your own emulsion, exploring hand processing techniques, and

Re: [Frameworks] Analogue Film

2012-12-16 Thread Robert Schaller
Thanks for this, Ms Kino! Both Cinevia and Kahl make 16mm as well as S8. Unfortunately for those of us not in Germany or even the EU, international shipping makes buying these stocks prohibitive. Is anyone in the US importing them? On Dec 16, 2012, at 3:10 AM, Cherry Kino wrote: Use

Re: [Frameworks] Hand Processing using D-76 for Tri-x (Reversal) 7266

2012-12-10 Thread Robert Schaller
Paolo, The D-19 formula can be found here: http://www.digitaltruth.com/data/kodak_d19.php or in Kodak publication H-7 A Guide for Processing Black White Motion Picture Films, which I have on paper but can't find online (anyone?) D-76 would be a disappointing reversal developer, because it's

Re: [Frameworks] E6 kit for super8 hand processing

2012-11-14 Thread Robert Schaller
Solarization (Sabatier) is a first-developer thing, because it effects how the image is formed from the latent image by the developer. The second developer pretty much develops everything that's left on the film, so solarization in the second developer shouldn't do much. Then again, I never

Re: [Frameworks] Frameworks Hey

2012-11-13 Thread Robert Schaller
Note that the domain name in this case is NOT msnbc.msn.com, as it might seem to be, but com-local8.us msnbc.msn.com is just a subdomain at that site Spammers will do anything to get your click. Sorry to see that they've infiltrated frameworks, too! On Nov 13, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Bryan McManus

Re: [Frameworks] Kodak announces 'asset protection' cinema film, thumbs nose at your digital movie collection

2012-08-29 Thread Robert Schaller
Seems like the first smart thing I've heard Kodak do in a long time... On Aug 28, 2012, at 2:53 AM, Pip Chodorov wrote: Kodak announces 'asset protection' cinema film, thumbs nose at your digital movie collection ENGADGET | AUGUST 27, 2012 http://pulse.me/s/cGnKt Kodak may not be

Re: [Frameworks] Direct-filmmakers A CALL

2012-02-25 Thread Robert Schaller
Could you be more descriptive of what you mean by direct-films and what qualifies? What you're looking for? On Feb 25, 2012, at 11:11 AM, steve cossman wrote: Frameworker's, Good afternoon, I'm assembling a program of direct-films on 16mm made in the last 5 years to

[Frameworks] Kodak finally files for bankruptcy

2012-01-19 Thread Robert Schaller
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/eastman-kodak-files-for-bankruptcy/?hp ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks