Ian Helliwell

Ian Helliwell at IFFR

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  Sun Tower 70

  Untameable swirling light shines through the cracks of the painted film surface.

  • Exploding Cinema: Speed of Light
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  Get Set

  A powerful direct animation in which Super-8 film material is processed with ink and instant lettering and symbols.

  • Short: Starting from Scratch

• Ian Helliwell: A Selection of Films

  Programme (in order of appearance): Orbiting the Atom, 2002, 4’50” Coloured Light District, 2002, 2’10” Return to the Light, 2001, 1’55” Crystallizati

  • exploding cinema
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  Chromaburst

  Super8 footage of neon lights is used as raw material for this abstract film, which has been treated with bleach and inks to create intricate patterns and textures.

  • exploding cinema
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  Filmosounds

  An experimental film and video combination, assembled from found 16mm footage cut into short sequences and spliced together to form an audio collage. The film soundtrack was then fed into a specially modified TV test pattern generator, to give a synchronised visual representation, in the form of blue horizontal bands of varying density.

  • exploding cinema - Sound Check
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  Deflection Currents

  This film combines Lissajous patterns and images from a modified TV test generator, filmed off a monitor with Super8, along with hand-processed footage shot in London using various distortion lenses. The two reels of film are mixed together and accompanied with electronic sounds from homemade circuits.

  • exploding cinema - Sound Check