Intermittently throughout this show we have snippets from a film called Libraries Are for Sharing, which was released by the Board of Co-op Educational Services, I’m guessing some time in the sixties. My projector runs at a slow speed thus adding the sluggish deep voiced quality so many of us are familiar with via playing records at the wrong speed. It is the only old film I own that employs sound.
The South By Southwest stuff includes a lot of cool stuff that you might want to check out:
Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata
All footage for Mother’s Day segment was gleaned from my families stash of home movies. It’s funny, I bought a batch of old films on ebay hoping to find weird/surreal stuff for the show, and none of it really compared to that of my family. Oh those Sugarfixes!
This brings us to the piece on the Pin Projekt, which I shot at the 2008 event at which artists decorate/re-create bowling pins for auction. It was one of the first things I ever shot and edited. This year’s event will take place Friday, May 29 8:00p at Pinhook, Durham, NC. For the third year in a row, I will be the auctioneer. The Pin Projekt is a fundraiser for the Troika Music Festival. Oh, and by the way, I’m aware of the fact that I spelled Project wrong (which is to say correctly) in the opening credits.
With the Birds and Arrows piece, I had the luxury of helping shoot it but did none of the editing, which is roughly the equivalent of eating and not having to do the dishes. Big thanks to Brian Risk and Jonathan Durlam for making this happen, and of course to Birds and Arrows for making such fine music.
Scratch film was done by Rachael Fiorentino and her classmates. Rachael also contributed a piece on the Recyclery for Sugarfix Mix 4. The music for this segment was done by Shit Ton who record on cassette tapes and do not put music up on-line.
So, I guess that about covers it. Any questions?
