Thoughts on Direct Film Manipulation

The filmmaker painted and drew directly on the reel's celluloid. The filmmaker also scratched off the film stock's emulsion. It seems digitally edited because the soundtrack matches the image progression so perfectly. These rhythmic visuals would be incredibly difficult to match to the films soundtrack without digital modification (unless the sound was recorded to match the images after the modification of the film stock). Maybe the filmmaker even glued textured materials to the film stock.... Maybe.  

Another aspect that makes the film appear to have digital manipulations is the extremely controlled movements of images in each frame. A bird like figure seems to fly across the screen with fluidity that does not suggest a raw cut of direct modifications to the film stock itself.  

The changes in color/color temperature modulated the mood/tone of this piece. The lack of narrative in this film and the inclusion of recognizable shapes (i.e. a house) challenges the audience to look for a missing narrative. The resulting inability to generate a solid narrative structure is frustrating. This combined with the frantic onscreen movement creates a level of energy that assaults the eye. 

This film can best be described as visual sound.