Strictly Handmade

For nearly two decades, I have been making all my films in the dark room – without using a camera. Found footage is placed directly upon raw stock and exposed one frame at a time by hand using various light sources, such as flashlights and laser pointers. Naturally, this manual process leaves its mark upon the film material and is inscribed upon the images themselves: One can tell that the resulting films are handmade. This is my personal reaction to the gradual disappearance of classical cinema, the imminent loss of film which is being replaced by digitally generated moving images created by the computer. The lecture will include a close examination and analysis of my film The Exquisite Corpus (2015), honoured with a Special Mention at Cannes Film Festival.