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At the Academy
1974 · Film · documentary · 5 min
Directed by Guy Sherwin
A found-footage film made entirely from Academy leader, which is normally used to cue the start of films. The film was hand-printed on a home-made contact printer. It was rolled back and re-printed several times over, to create a complex layering of both image and sound.
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Even working with the specific material of film header is surprisingly common in experimental/artists film.
See e.g.
Guy Sherwin "At The Academy" (using standard Academy header) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=agQsAS6T_Lk
Birgit and Wilhelm Hein's "Materialfilme" is just colored header which bears the marks of repeated projection. https://www.edition-filmmuseum.com/product_info.php/language/en/info/p116_Materialfilme-1968-76.html
Those are from the 60s and 70s. Artists are still at it, e.g. Lucy Raven, RP31, (2012): http://lucyraven.com/RP31
I'm not judging Raven's work but I for one am no longer interested in variations of this genre of film...