John and his mother are painting in the country in the summer. His mother has always been a painter and still is, at 90. When John and his sisters were children, she would take them out painting in the country and this was a rare re-occurrence since John’s pre-teens, 20 years earlier. The film’s background is also the painters’ subject – a farmer’s brown field being ploughed by a red & white tractor, a grey barn, green trees and a blue sky with billowing white clouds. It ends with a peek at John’s finished painting, another rare occurrence. A single-shot film, taken at 3 seconds per frame, over one hour.
Also in this combined programme
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Firefly
The film maker improvises a performance for the camera with a small lamp swinging on a long chord. Long exposure times and unexpected lens errors t
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Rock Jam
An action painting made with a Super8 camera of large groups of visitors at different rock concerts.
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Scanning 5
Performance in which John Porter, with the projector in his hand, provides a stunning surround-Super8 environment.
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Amusement Park
Magnificent use of the time-lapse technique completes the transformation from fairground attractions to immaterial light objects. Uncomplicated zoo
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Toy Catalog 3
For many large children among the viewers, undoubtedly an unexpected sentimental journey. The screen fills up with piles and piles of mini-toys fro
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Blade Sharpener
Made in a single shot from the other side of the road. The film maker respectfully portrays a knife & blade sharpener going from door to door.
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Santa Claus Parade
Toronto’s great annual Christmas Parade, seen from the end of the long and wide University Avenue. Filmed for eight hours at four frames a second.<
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Exams
A beautiful time-lapse registration of hundreds of tables in a large hall that is occupied in a brief time by an equal number of students.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 1977
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 1"
- Medium/Format
- Super 8
