tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Film-Stripography
(updated March 2010e.v.)
{tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE can be contacted @ <anon@fyi.net>}
263. "Epidermoid"
- shot at a nudist mask party in Pittsburgh
- mini-dv, PXL-2000, super-8mm, 35mm slidestrip, 35mm filmstrip -> computer file -> DVD & mini-dv
- 10:49
- shot april 22, 2006 - finished february 12, 2007
242. "Ledger of St Dermain"
- shot in a limestone mine in Brady's Bend, Pennsylvania
- slides, slidestrip, super-8, sampling, scripting, editing, etc: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- mini-DV camcorder: Who is like God? (Pestel)
- sound: Who is like God?s
- lighting: Jarrett Buba
- film to video transfers: Jesse McLean
- Earl Ballard played by: Johnny Evans
- APPARITION of ST Dermain played by: John Allen Gibel
- Thanks to Daniel Bruce for mine access
- mini-DV + slides + slidestrip + super-8 -> DVD
- 6:53
- shot in the spring & summer of '04 / edit made in december '04
236. "Batu Caves"
- shot in Malaysia (& Queen's Queef, Australia)
- starring: etta cetera as Ghanesh
- assistance w/ titling: J-Mew
- VHS + film/slide strips -> VHS
- 5:57
- march '00 / december '03
226. a. "Cuntralia"
- shot in Centralia, PA & Baltimore, MD & Pittsburgh, PA
- black & white negative 35mm filmstrip w/ CD soundtrack
- 15:55
- april, 02 - august, 02
b. "Cuntralia"
- shot in Centralia, PA & Baltimore, MD & Pittsburgh, PA
- black & white negative 35mm filmstrip w/ CD soundtrack
- 5:05
- april, 02 - august, 02
c. "Cuntralia"
- shot in Centralia, PA & Baltimore, MD & Pittsburgh, PA
- black & white negative 35mm filmstrip w/ CD soundtrack
- version meant to be screened via broken "Communicator" portable filmstrip projector
- 1:15
- april, 02 - august, 02
d. "Cuntralia"
- credited to Tim Ore
- shot in Centralia, PA & Baltimore, MD & Pittsburgh, PA
- 1/2" VHS camcorder shooting in Centralia & in sickness scene: Tim Ore; 1/2" VHS camcorder shooting in "Travelling Salesman" scene: Scott Carney; 1/2" VHS camcorder shooting in surgical staples removal scene: Olivia Ciummo; super-8 shooting in "Travelling Salesman" scene: Greg Pierce; starring: Varda & Tim Ore & Lamar Mervine (the 86 year-old mayor of Centralia) as themselves; also starring: Olivia Ciummo & Jessi-Fay Silver as the 'housewives' in the "Travelling Salesman" scene & Jessi-Fay Silver as the nurse in the surgical staples removal scene; Voice-Overs: Tim Ore as himself & Jessi-Fay Silver as Valda; thanks to Ron Douglas for the use of his computer for minor editing
- 1/2" VHS cassette + black & white negative 35mm filmstrip w/ CD soundtrack + super-8 -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 15:35
- april, 02 - september, 02
219. a. "Guitarists Anonymous Withdrawal Aids"
- shot in Pittsburgh & BalTimOre
- 35mm filmstrip + live sample playing
- indeterminate duration
- january, 02
b. "Guitarists Anonymous Withdrawal Aids"
- 35mm slides + live sample playing
- indeterminate duration
- january, 02
c. "Guitarists Anonymous Withdrawal Aids"
- 35mm slides + studio soundtrack of sample playing
- 32:00
- february, 02
d. "Guitarists Anonymous Withdrawal Aids"
- 35mm filmstrip + 35mm slides + studio soundtrack of sample playing + mini-DV + 1/2" VHS cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 32:17
- december 11, 01 - march 16, 02
e. "Guitarists Anonymous Withdrawal Aids"
- w/ the addition of a few crdedit titles including Kent Bye etta cetera for camera & Michael Pestel & Eric Myers for instruments & instrument playing as well as Alex Van Ness, Greg Pierce, & Daryl Fleming as guitar addicts & Linda Gielec as a success story
- 35mm filmstrip + 35mm slides + studio soundtrack of sample playing + mini-DV + 1/2" VHS cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette -> computer -> mini-DV & DVD-R
- 32:41
- december 11, 01 - march 16, 02 / April 23, 09
215. a. "Hibonsa o osoleluna! "Heibon" ga omae o Dame m sulumaeni" ("Kill Normality Before It Kills You")
- This is a compilation of the Nudist Mask movies in chronological order w/ most titles removed & w/ relevant footage from 213a. "Circumsubstantial Playing & Blindfolded Tourism" interspersed. The other movies used are: 20. "Seriousness is Death", 98c. "Tent's Muir" {version 3}, 123. "Nudist Party", 130. "Signs & Symptoms of Leptospirosis", 158 b. "Volunteers Collective XII - The Last Transmission From the Short & Happy Life of a Meteorite Nudist Camp", 163. "Funny Farm Summit Meeting", 178. "Mirthplace of the Republicans", & 204. "Y, 2, Nay-Ked!"
- super-8 & 1/2" VHS cassette & 8mm vaudeo & 16mm & mini-DV -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:11:04
- '82 - '01
b. "Hibonsa o osoleluna! "Heibon" ga omae o Dame m sulumaeni" ("Kill Normality Before It Kills You")
- This adds Karen Eliot's "I agree with tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's position on the Art Strike" & 262. "Epidermoid" & credits as well as a new section on the "Neoist Contest" at the Public Works Festival in Toronto in 1981
- super-8 & 1/2" VHS cassette & 8mm vaudeo & 16mm & mini-DV & PXL-2000 & 35mm slide-strip & 35mm filmstrip -> DVD
- 1:30:49
- '81 - '07 - finished february 24, '07
204. a. "Where We're"
- w/ text written by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE etta cetera
- w/ readings from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE; etta cetera; Sharyn Lee Neccai; John Evans; Phat Man Dee
- synthesizer usic from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE w/ violin samples from David Prentice
- shot in Pittsburgh; Founders Grove, Humboldt Redwoods State Park; Black Rock City, Nevada (during Burning Man '99); etc.. - using found filmstrips provided by Jubal Brown + 35mm motion picture film provided by Laura Kikauka
- 35mm filmstrip w/ prerecorded sound
- 2:03:30
- october '98 - november '99
b. "Where We're"
- w/ transfer assistance from John Evans
- 35mm filmstrip & recorded sound transferred to 1/2" VHS cassette both as a filmstrip & as a 35mm film (this latter in 16 ways)
c. "Where We're Trailer #1"
- 35mm filmstrip & recorded sound transferred to 1/2" VHS cassette as a 35mm film (in 16 ways)
- 11:16
d. "Where We're Trailer #2"
- 35mm filmstrip & recorded sound transferred to 1/2" VHS cassette as a 35mm film (in 8 ways)
- 5:37
e. "Where We're" (w/ Windsor Generic Tour)
- In the collection of Peter "Brainpang" Warner
- similar to a. except that various vaudeo f/x are used as well as slightly more complicated transfer techniques + footage from the Generic Tour in Windsor is added + a snippet of mystery footage + additional sound from "Livid at the Schmaltzwald" by John Henry Nyenhuis & tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- 2:01:56
f. "Where We're" (w/ Windsor Generic Tour, etc..)
- similar to e. except that additional footage from the Pittsburgh Generic Tour, the "Black Rectangle over the Eye" presentation in Baltimore (that involved a screening of the filmstrip version of "Where We're"), & the American Urological Association is inserted
- 2:01:56
202. a. "Shuffle Mode"
- 35mm filmstrip w/ spoken or prerecorded sound
- 3:03
- september - october '99
b. "Shuffle Mode"
- slide show w/ spoken or prerecorded sound
- variable duration - app. 5:00
196. a. "In Perplexing Pursuit of the Prodigy Paleontologist" {version 1}
- shot in Northern California @ Lassen National Volcanic Park & @ Founders Grove, Humboldt Redwoods State Park
- 35mm Möbius strip filmstrip & audio cassette
- 18:25
- october '98 / march '99
b. "In Perplexing Pursuit of the Prodigy Paleontologist" {version 2}
- shot at the Southern Rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, at the Painted Desert & Petrified Forest in New Mexico, & at a lava field in New Mexico
- 35mm Möbius strip filmstrip & audio cassette
- 17:31
- october '98 / march '99
195. "Say Cheese! - 5 Days in Wisconsin"
- a trip thru the House on the Rock to Dreamtime Village to Dr. Evermor's Forevertron to Sid Boyum's backyard to the Hmong Reception & Banquet for General Vang Pao at the La Crosse Civic Arena
- with the assistance of Etta Cetera
- 35mm filmstrip & audio cassette
- 53:27
- october '98 - january '99
194. a. "Air Drops" {filmstrip version}
- quasi-documentation of a project in collaboration with Delta Bravo
- with the assistance of Juliet Lima & Sierra Lima Foxtrot November
- 35mm filmstrip
- indefinite duration
- september-november '98
b. "Air Drops" {vaudeo version 1}
- tANGO, aLPHA cHARLIE
- quasi-documentation of a project in collaboration with Delta Bravo
- with the assistance of Alpha Charlie, Juliet Lima, Juliet Papa, Sierra Lima Foxtrot November, & Mike Juliet
- 35mm filmstrip, 8mm vaudeo, slides, stills, audio cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 19:30
- september '97 - september '98
c. "Air Drops" {vaudeo version 2}
- using snippets from Current Affairs Films' "UFO'S: WHO'S WATCHING US?" & George Antheil's 2nd Piano Sonata: "The Airplane" (1st movement)
- 35mm filmstrips, 8mm vaudeo, slides, stills, audio cassettes -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 14:20
- september '97 - november '98
193. "A History of the Toronto Railway Lands Central & West - Part 3"
- tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE etta cetera
- 35mm filmstrip
- indefinite duration
- august '98
b. "Urban Myth of the Force That Prevents Building on the Railway Lands"
- assistance w/ titling: J-Mew
- VHS + 35mm filmstrip + 35mm slides -> VHS
- 9:00
- summer '98 / december '03
c. "Urban Myth of the Force That Prevents Building on the Railway Lands"
- voice overdub: etta cetera, reenactment camera: Mark O'Connor
- VHS + 35mm filmstrip + 35mm slides -> VHS & mini-DV -> computer -> mini-DV & DVD-R
- 6:01
- summer '98 / december '03 / edit finished May 6, '09
192. "Death Bed Aerobics"
- Party Teen on Couch #2 etta cetera
- 2 35mm filmstrips & audio cassette
- 4:45
- july '98
178. "FILMSTRIPS"
- a collaboration w/ Orgone Cinema & friends using found filmstrips w/ their original sound + found filmstrips for which new soundtracks were made by Edgar Um-Bucholtz & anonymous & Frauke Johnsen & Greg Pierce & Todd Whitman + found filmstrip sound w/ a new filmstrip made for it by Greg Pierce
- edited by Michael Johnsen & anonymous
- 35mm filmstrips & audio cassettes & records -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:01:34
- '96
177. "The Postman Always Rings the Homunculous of Woody Allen & Hollis Frampton Twice"
- 35mm filmstrip & audio cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 8:24
- july '96
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