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Straight 8

Here's a film from Nick Scott  - Earth to Earth - for the Straight 8 competition (click thumbnail).

Straight 8 is a great idea in which the filmmakers shoot a film on a single cartridge of super 8mm film.  They hand over their exposed but un-developed, un-edited film for processing. They also burn an original soundtrack onto cd.  The first time they see their work is with a packed cinema audience, also seeing it for the first time. The projectionist will simply play the CD when he sees the first frame of the film. No written instructions to the projectionist allowed. Reminds me of Grace 9.

A great deal of creativity happens because the creators are constrained in some way or have to overcome obstacles.  In many ways TV and film has removed such obstacles - I mean, given enough money you can do anything you can imagine in post production or with CGI, but in many cases the spectacle of such productions has replaced the creativity and ideas.

Edit Magic

I was spellbound at the Tate Modern by Video Quartet in which clips of percussion instruments were edited on four screens to produce one coherent piece (Christian Marclay).  Here a different artist Lasse Gjertsen shows that a thrilling relationship can be achieved between sound and vision in the edit.