Flicker Philly

Rose Lowder is the inspiration for this test. Her films are shot frame-by-frame in 16mm with the Bolex, but she alternates frames among different subjects. She does this by a complex ordering of the content of each frame. She will, for example, assign one subject to every other frame on a roll of film by shooting one frame, then covering the lens and shooting a frame of black (unexposed), then shooting another frame of the subject, then another black. When finished, she rewinds the camera and exposes the unexposed frames on a different subject and a sort of in-camera superimposition effect is created. It can also be considered a "flicker film," because of its strobing effect.

Please see below for my video interpretation of this structuralist method of filmmaking. The superimposition of simultaneous images is my form of montage to describe the fragmentary experience of the visuals of an urban landscape seemingly at odds with itself. In what ways can perspective and time be altered by the patterned or random ordering of frames which compose a time-based media like film? How much time must be assigned to any one image for it to leave its impression upon the viewer?

Untitled from Joe Kraemer on Vimeo.