Sunday, February 7, 2010

Recycled Images - Video - William S. Burroughs

In relation to our "Cut-Ups Self-Explained" worksheet we were given in class, I found a video on Ubu of a William S. Burrough's film utilizing the cut-up method called simply, "The Cut-Ups." It's a little tough to swallow, but it's a nice starting point to thinking about applying this method to editing our films... once we make 'em!

Also, here's a video and interview with him discussing shotgun painting, and although this is an approach I don't think I have the access to, Burroughs talks about the "marbling" technique: "Take water and spray your paint on top of the water and then put your paper or whatever in the water and pull it out and it sticks in all sorts of random patterns."

Could be kind of cool to use this and then do a magazine transfer... or maybe even directly onto film!

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