Time Well Wasted at Time Lost Screening
posted on the Nouvelle Baguette: Cinema Souterrain Blog - link to it here
February 15, 2007
A fine event was held Tuesday night with the New Cineworks 2007 screening at the Vancouver Pacific Cinematheque. Which was the world premiere of Amor de Fromage's 7 minute short Time Lost is Never Found.
Of the thirteen films screened that evening the highlight was arguably the black humour of Frog Jesus by Ben Peters and experimentist Amanda Dawn Christie's hypnotic 3 Part Harmony: Composition in RGB #1 which was shot on 16mm film and used a "bastardized version of the 1930s three strip Technicolor process" and was printed personally by Christie using an optical printer.
Other favorites include the experimental inearth by Chris Brabant and the The Saddest Boy In The World by Amy Belling and Jamie Travis which was the big budget epic of the evening featuring a cast and crew of dozens and financial aid from just about every agency in Canada. However the result was a lushly filmed movie that was shot and printed on 35mm film and you could really tell it. The bright colours and sharp picture stood up and above the shoddy digital projection of most of the other films. While most of the evening's films were shot on film the majority of those were posted in digital with no film print. Digital projection just ain't there... yet.
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