Flicker #14

      Welcome to Flicker #14 March 19, 1997

      program 14 Shown at Flicker #14 in approximately this order:

      1. Martha Colburn "Zig Zag" & "Asthma"
      5min. 16mm

      2. Cory Ryan "In my time, you can't drive naked"
      4 min. Super 8

      3. Bo Williams "Drive"
      3 min. 16mm

      4. Bo Webb "Hammered"
      11 min. 35mm

      5. Jeff Tiger et al "Shooting Puddin"
      4 min. Super 8

      6. Tom Vanaman "Copy Jerk"
      3 min. Super 8

      7. Joel Watson "Robert, Portrait of a Legend"
      3 min. 16mm

      8. Norwood Cheek "2 Minute Warning"
      3 min. Super 8

      9. David Teague "The Magnolia House"
      13 min. Super 8

      10. Matt Schofield "Thinning"
      4 min. Super 8

      11. Tom Laney "Live Rock"
      12 min. Super 8

      12. Brett Turner "The Scourge of Anubis"
      15 min. Super 8

      Welcome to Flicker #14

      I'm super excited about tonight's lineup, and it's great to have you here to take it all in. Many thanks to Frank and the Cat's Cradle for such a stellar screening space. Also thanks to Chris Speck for a scrapbook insertable write-up in last Friday's Chapel Hill News. The word is truly being spread my good friends, and it is quite Super! Mary and Chuck from catalogue.com keep the hard drives plugged in and the Flicker Web Site there for the world to see. Tonight we'll see films by Martha Colburn from Baltimore, and Brett Turner from Windsor, Ontario, both of whom discovered Flicker on the World Wide Web!

      You're here at http://www.chapel-hill.nc.us/flicker
      email flicker@mekons.com

      Yours for better films,
      Norwood

      Flicker Film Grant

      Bob Taylor received the 5th $100 Flicker Film Grant at Flicker #13. I began giving these grants almost a year ago, and will continue at each and every Flicker Festival. Your support and $3 you paid at the door goes towards this grant, paying for the video projector, upkeep of the projectors, and the printing of this program. Grant #6 will be given tonight, and if you would like to be considered for Grant #7, please write your proposal to:

      Flicker
      810 S. Columbia St.
      Chapel Hill, NC 27514

      DIY film to video transfer

      Super 8 to video at the flip of a few switches

      what you need:
      1. Super 8 projector
      2. Video camera
      3. Tripod
      4. Dark room
      5. Screen, white wall, or the back of a poster

      Set the video camera right beside the projector. Set your focus. Zoom in to loose the edges of the film, now you're ready to go. This d.i.y. transfer can sometimes match the quality from many "professional transfers", plus it will save you $. The biggest problem is usually the flicker caused by differing frame rates (video 30, and film 18 or 24), this is remedied by a variable speed projector. You can essentially dial the flicker right out.

      Where Does the Light Go?

      Quite a remarkable, yet very simple idea,
      Watching a film on a screen.
      The light bounces right back at you,
      And you decide what you've seen.

      Do you ever just sit in your house at night,
      And scream out your loudest scream?
      No one there to hear you,
      Did you ever really scream?

      What about the movies?
      Say you get there too late.
      The films are over,
      There's a lock on the gate.

      What if you could travel,
      Way up in the sky.
      Catching up with the films,
      You missed last night.

      If I could I would,
      And I hope you would too.
      Past the speed of light,
      Let's pretend it's all true.

      For me it's an easy choice,
      Found far beyond the Sun.
      Back more than sixty years,
      To 1931.

      I would sit beside Einstein,
      Not in his lab tonight.
      We would be at the premiere
      Of Chaplin's "City Lights".

      Where does the light go?
      I wish I could say.
      Maybe still around us,
      Lost in the day.

      It's there for the taking,
      Just waiting to be claimed.
      And captured by a camera,
      This light may one day have a name.

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