Baked Goods For Norman
Synopsis: Baked Goods For Norman was created to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of NFB filmmaker Norman McLaren. The films unique colours and textures were created in my kitchen:
Technical Notes: I originally photographed onto 16mm black and white film two horses playing in a farmers field, I then hand processed the b&w 16mm negative film. I took this negative image and created a 16mm black and white film print using a 16mm Steenbeck editing table. After hand processing the film print I took it and submerged it into cooking molasses, I then rolled the film back up onto its metal daylight spool, wrapped it in tinfoil and baked it in an oven at 250 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes. Using a 16mm JK Optical Printer I re-photographed the baked film print onto 16mm colour film stock. I hand processed this new 16mm colour inter-negative and printed it again using a 16mm Steenbeck editing table. I now had a 16mm colour film print of the baked footage, however, I was not happy with the look of the film so I then took this new film print and I submerged sections of it into three separate colourful mixtures of corn syrup and food colouring. I once again rolled the film back onto its spool, wrapped it in tinfoil and baked it in the oven for another 30 minutes. Once again I viewed the film after it had cooled and dried and I was still unhappy with its appearance so I then took a paste like mixture of baking soda, sugar, blue food colouring and water and wiped the entire film down with it. I then wrapped it up in tinfoil and baked it for another 30 minutes. I was still unhappy with this experiment so I then took kids red play-dough and I randomly placed throughout the film little tiny pieces of play-dough. I then rolled the film up, wrapped it in foil and baked it for a final 30 minutes at 250 degrees Fahrenheit. The film at this point was hard to view so I decided to create another inter-negative of the manipulated film by contact printing it in the Steenbeck. I then hand processed it. What you see in this video is a sample of what I ended up with. I am still not completely satisfied with this outcome so what you are viewing is the inter-negative. The final print from this negative has been put in the fridge for another day in the kitchen. |