{"id":387,"date":"2011-09-22T17:36:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/?p=387"},"modified":"2012-02-06T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T21:14:09","slug":"free-radicals-images-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/2011\/09\/22\/free-radicals-images-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Radicals: Images & Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pip Chodorov talks us through a bunch of stills from his documentary FREE RADICALS. Go to the bottom of the page for the film’s trailer & screening schedule.<\/em><\/p>\n

1. We decided to use a typewriter font which brings to mind handmade work. In order to preserve a double-meaning from the French title, we called the film “a history of experimental film” but then “history” becomes “story.”<\/p>\n

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2. This is my mom and myself in 1966. What I say in the voice-over is true: the chemical alteration visible in the image was created by our dog who pissed on a box of home movies about ten years later.<\/p>\n

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3. Hans Richter, the Dada artist and one of the first makers of abstract film. He was a neighbor, and my dad interviewed him for CBS television in 1973. I was there – I was 8 years old. Richter wanted to draw my portrait but I wriggled away. He did give us one of the hats from Ghosts Before Breakfast<\/em> and I used it in some early Super-8 films.<\/p>\n

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4. Peter Kubelka explains how he made Adebar<\/em> to me and Jonas Mekas. This was shot at the FIAC art fair in 2007, on the film’s 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n

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5. Kubelka claps for the sync sound 16mm camera. He and Jonas were very excited to be filmed on film, even though Jonas captures everything on his DV-Cam now. In the background is Richter’s 1976 silkscreen of his Rythmus 21<\/em> scroll painting.<\/p>\n

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6. Maurice Lema\u00eetre, the French letterist artist, telling us that experimental filmmakers are like the chefs of highly refined dishes.<\/p>\n

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7. Stan Brakhage shows us his 2003 work in progress\u00a0The Chinese Series<\/em>. He was very sick with cancer and told us it should be considered finished whenever he stopped work on it. He died two months later.<\/p>\n

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8. Nam June Paik, from a film made in 1984 in support of the Anthology Film Archives. When Paik first came to America, Jonas Mekas was his financial sponsor although he didn’t have a penny in the bank. Luckily the authorities never checked his bank account, so Paik was able to sneak in.<\/p>\n

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9. Jonas Mekas munches corn on the cob at the Greenpoint subway stop in New York. Jonas moved to Greenpoint after living for 30 years in a Soho loft. His videos Farewell to Soho<\/em> and Letter to Greenpoint<\/em> document the move.<\/p>\n

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10. Here I am developing film at L’Abominable, the Paris do-it-yourself non-profit artist-run film lab. When you hand-develop 16mm color negative, you have to rub off an anti-halo “rem jet” backing or else the film will be permanently stained. It isn’t easy.<\/p>\n

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… and here is the trailer for FREE RADICALS …<\/p>\n