"Shot on Blood: Kozmikonic Electronica",
Oliver Hockenhull, 2010

http://www.shinynewfilms.com/nu/shot_on_blood.html

1/2 of the film was shot using a hand cranked 35mm camera, a 1912 Bell and Howell 2709 — B. The other half of the film was shot in HD. The film was hand processed and using the colour matrix and gamma of a hand made emulsion (using my own tinted blood cells for grain — based on a 1930’s patent) the film was transferred to high definition video.

The work is about representation today

— analog / binary — & electricity & hydro power & British Columbia & the beginnings of cinema via Eadweard Muybridge & the energy certificates of the Technocracy party & the absolute value of noise & the year 1957 & regional modernism & the Big Bang & Vermeer's “Milk Maid” & Poincaré recurrence theorem & the great Canadian cowboy singer Wilf Carter & Western Culture & the concept of Grace in Catholic painting & the Tathāgatas of Buddhism & Boris Karloff as Frankenstein reaching for the light. 57 minutes. HD

+ Installation/Gallery Loop of the results of the experiment: 22 minute loop

The 57 minute piece can be shown in regular cinema set up and is available in your preferred HD medium, the loop is ideally paired as an event with the film. To be shown on a 16/9 Gallery wall or elsewhere presented as a pure art presentation.