FRAMERATES
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FRAMERATES (2021, 8 minutes): ‘Bursts of sounds and images crash and collide in this exploration of rapid speeds, frenetic rhythms, and single-frame editing.’
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FRAMERATES is a series of 6 ‘mini-films’ presented together, all made from the same pool of audio and video recordings, each made according to a unique multi-layered editing process. I wanted to experiment with the single frame as a durational element and see how audio and visual material are changed and shaped when experienced in such short, rapid bursts. I also wanted to explore the possibilities presented by overlaying recordings to create new materials and how small changes to the number of frames seen or heard would affect how a viewer-listener experiences rhythm. Premiered at the 2021 IndieCork Film Festival as part of a Special Programme of my experimental film work. Screened as part of a double bill with November 2020 at the Experimental Film Odyssey festival 2021.
Selected for screening at the 2021 IndieCork Film Festival as part of a Special Programme of my experimental film work.
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Screened as part of a double-bill with November 2020 at the Experimental Film Odyssey festival 2021.
It was made as part of my creative practice-based PhD research in University College Cork. My research is focused on the development of an approach to experimental filmmaking in which sounds and images are treated as equal and independent elements. I often employ chance-operations in the editing process and allow things such as shot order and durations to be randomly determined, having been inspired by the work of experimental musicians such as John Cage.
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There are several examples of early ‘flicker-films’ that are important to the history of experimental filmmaking (Arnulf Rainer by Peter Kubelka [1960], The Flicker by Tony Conrad [1966], N:O:T:H:I:N:G by Paul Sharits [1964]), and I wanted to bring my perspective to this style of experimental filmmaking by focusing on sound as equally important. As most of these examples are either silent or primarily focused on the visual flicker, I felt this was an area that had to room to be expanded on through an approach of working with audio and visual materials as equals.
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Recorded in Dublin and Cork, Ireland, in December 2020–January 2021.
