Of all the pieces that were watched today my favorite overall was Market Street by Tomonari Nishikaka. The use of still frames was amazing. The fact the the eye could pick out a lot of the images amazed me. It made me think back to fight club when the fictional character Tyler Durden would splice in single frames into other movies to give a subconscious vision. I never thought that so many vivid detailed images could be stored in my memory over the span of five minutes. Also the use of shapes and movements of shapes really intrigued me. Although I thought at times I could possibly have a seizure and any moment.
Also the Munich-Berlin Walking Trip by Oscar Fischinger used this technique as well. The sole thing that amazed me about this piece was that it was done in 1927. I guess I never really considered experimental film back that early.
Containers and Variations were also very good films they just didn't leave a cognitive impact like the single frame process did. One would think it would be the other way around but that wasn't the case at all.
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I agree with the perspective about how Tomonari Nishikaka created the film "Market Street." The way the movie was done was completely different from what you would expect. Your attention span is only limited for a certain period of time, and this film played with your attention grabbing your eye.
Hi Chris,
I started filmmaking at SUNY Binghamton in 2001, and the first assignment for Filmmaking I class was single-framing. Single-framing is fun, although it often requires a painstaking process. For "Market Street," I shot more than 5,000 stills by my Bolex 16mm camera on Market Street in SF.
I have my great interest in cinema apparatus and human visual perception. One of the things that I am focusing on single-framing projects is apparent shapes. When you perceive a triangle shape in "Market Street," it is not because there is such a shape within a frame, but the shape is created (I do not think this is a right word) by three frames. Each frame has a line dividing over-exposed and under-exposed areas, and the line would become a part of a perimeter of the triangle when screened through a projector.
I am glad to hear that you found my work interesting. I hope you are having a wonderful semester.
Tomonari
he Berlin Walking Trip, I agree, was astounding in its quality for its date. I also had no idea that experimental film would even have been considered back then, yet there is the possibility that that is all he was doing...walking. Then later someone called it art so he titled it etc... Either way I find these types of pieces to be very interesting. It allows us to visually exist in a place very distant in miles as well as in time.
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