“Il existe depuis 2006 et on trouve des vidéos expérimentales pointues d’un grand intérêt. C’est vraiment un site où l’on découvre de vrais films originaux et je pense que c’est toujours intéressant de s’ouvrir à des créations différentes. L’auteur du blog nous dégote à chaque fois des perles en faisant un grand travail de recherche…”

[First post about Hinterland] I have 3.669 photos of my desk and I’m gonna stop here. 3.669 images are 2:26 minutos of video —usually animations are made using 12 images per second, but I always use 25, one per frame (I work in PAL).

I’ve already edited all those images and I have a first video, now I’m working on the titles and thinking about the sound. My first idea about the sound was using a recording of an old 16mm projector, but now I think that maybe it’s better idea to record the sound from the app 8mm, because the initial concept was making ‘fake cinema’ with digital gadgets.

UPDATE: Finally I’ve decided that I’m not gonna use the sound from the app 8mm, the loop is too short and obvious. I’ve been searching and I’ve chosen a recording of a 16mm projector that I’ve found at freesound by someone named al_sub. Anyway, I’ve used 8mm to create the titles, recording the computer screen.

Ø is famous among lexicographers for the extreme brevity of its name: the single letter Ø.”

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Ø It’s the best name for a place that I can imagine… I want to travel to Ø, I want to be at Ø.

Found at: Boing Boing / The World Geography

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Ana María Sedeño Valdellós

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Thomas Bey William Bailey

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Thomas Bey William Bailey

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Jeff Noon

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Kim Cascone

Lately I’ve been doing a lot of photographs of my desk, right now I have more than 2.000. All those images are ‘macros’ shot with an iPod Touch and Hipstamatic, so the quality is really bad, but I prefer this kind of aesthetics and textures than standard video. The idea is starting a series called ‘materialist film’ with the heading ‘this is not cinema’.

I’ve always wanted to make a video entitled ‘this is not cinema’ as a kind of a joke about the boundaries between cinema and video, and lately I’ve realised that there’re a lot of apps that imitate the aesthetics of old photography and movie cameras (Polaroids, 8mm, etc.), so I though that it would be funny to create materialist films with those apps.

The first image of this post is a straight photo of my white desk made with Hipstamatic. The second image is the same photo cut and resized to 1280 x 720 pixels, with a sharpening filter –I’m doing the same to all the original files. I’m shooting just the surface of the white table using John S lens and Ina’s 1969 film, but the colour of the images changes depending on the hour, the weather and the surrounding objects.

The term ‘hinterland’ is German and means literally “the land behind”. Hinterland it’s also used in English with several meanings, all related with spaces that surround or are behind other space.

El mundo maravilloso del lenguaje, Walter Porzig.

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• Agni Hotra (2000)
Merzbow

• Eliane Radigue (1973)
Transamorem – Transmortem

• The Cobbleston is the Weapon of the Proletariat (2004)
Leif Elggren

• The Sound and the Fury [listen]
Andrew Martin, BBC Radio 3

• Mirage de Loire (2012) [listen]
Hervé Moire

• framework radio #367: 2012.03.18 [listen]

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