A film by Storm De Hirsch, 1965, 8 mins, 8mm, color, sound

Filmmakers never have a valid excuse not to make films — you don’t even need a camera to make a film — nor a computer.  Storm De Hirsch, a film avant-gardener of the ’60s, didn’t have a camera — she definitely didn’t have a computer — all she had was old, unused film stock and a few rolls of 16mm sound tape.  Throwing aside the animation conventions of the ’60s (usually frame-by-frame photography of drawings on paper or transparencies), De Hirsch successfully created a trilogy of films by painting directly on old film stock, cutting, and etching the (more…)