Distorted - Don’t Look Now

13/01/2004

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In between watching Road to Perdition (which is bloody superb) and Southern Comfort on Saturday, I created a little piece of software using processing that processes every frame of a DVD and distorts them into weird twisted images. The film I used to do it was the eerie 1973 classic “Don’t Look Now” starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. The result was 162 images representing the entire film.

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Those images would look great on a long sheet of canvas.

Its a bit arty but the concept of being able to walk through a film appeals to me.

It would also be cool to see how a black and white renders out.

chris / 13/01/2004

A long canvas would be cool. I’m thinking of doing “The Man Who Wasn’t There” for the next one - like you said to see how black and white would turn out. Watch this space!

Bren / 13/01/2004

Like it i like it, although it does remind me of the stuff Mike Cina has done.

Have a look at some of the works of art by julian opie. Big is good.

http://www.julianopie.com/projects/index.htm

Tim Macknelly / 14/01/2004

Brilliant Brendan, Couldn’t have happened to a more appropriate film. How ’bout next and back buttons so you can step through the images in sequence?

Coudal / 21/01/2004

Thanks Jim. Yeah I’ll look into the left and right buttons. I’ve got some more DVD processed stuff on it’s way… stay tuned.

Bren / 21/01/2004

Here’s my fave image from the experiment.

Coudal / 21/01/2004

Fantastic. A great idea to use Don’t Look Now - the colour red in the film signifies tension and these moments come out really well in the stretched image as sudden distinct bands of red.

James / 23/01/2004

lol @ usibilty tip from coudal

(esp after reading the bar likert ratings card post first - sweet irony)

interesting images though, personally (being so uncultured) I’d like to see how Transformers the movie pans out