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30 days, 30 films, 30 thoughts and feelings each from Hillary and Brandon. A film a day for every day of April 2025.

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FIGHT ME VIMEO!

I was similarly struggling so much with this. I knew I wanted to use the Bee Gee's song, and that I wanted it to be a kind of meeting of characters, but it was just not working at all in the edit.

I think I was trying to make it too big, too conclusive, too summarizingly grand and expansive...and it wanted to be simpler, and just a kind of celebration of character and shadow.

I'm so happy you mentioned Leonora in your post because she is at the heart of mine too! But I will not spoil.

I want to write more, but I have to be up super early tomorrow to go to my friend's bachelor party upstate! But alas, the April muses pull one last trick.

Thank you so much for doing this with me! It was everything: empowering, inspiring, adventuring, stressing (but in a fun way!), thinking, feeling, and always, always exploring. You are the best film comrade to adventure with.

Forest Hills sounds awesome for our April debrief!!! I've only ever passed by on the train...

And with that...

The slow imagining of a slow train...

The April Muses are signing off...

Happy Last Day!

(Music: "Spicks and Specks" by Bee Gees)

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Hmmmm.... are you getting the same, "Sorry. Because of its privacy settings this video cannot be played here" messages or is that just me? (Happy Last Day!)

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My brain was so blank today! I don't know why! I went from doing a baseball film to a space film to this snow film to an April in retrospect film to an April in retrospect with muppets to back to this snow film because all the other ones weren't working!

I just kind of did it stream of consciously, and I ended up doing The Hillary style!!! I had your films in mind (especially "Taken out of Context (touch grass) and "camera tests // coping")! I just love how you fragment the frame and combine images! This is my little ode to you and your style and to our April adventures!

My last Kino Archives film for April!

(Music: "Turiya & Ramakrishna" by Alice Coltrane)

(Footage:

"Train Journey Through Snowy Mountains, 1980s USA, 35mm"

"1940s POV Train Ride Through Rocky Mountains, Canada, 16mm"

"1960s, Alpine Views From Train Window, 35mm"

"1960s New York, Winter Snowball Fight, 35mm"

"1940s Norway, Children Playing In The Snow, 16mm converted"

"Snow Games! (Beautiful 1920s Video Montage)"

"USA / WEATHER: Snow storm in Chicago (1929)"

"Northern England Snow Scenes, 1960s Home Movies, 8mm"

All courtesy of Kinolibrary Archive Film Collections and British Pathé)

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PHEW!

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Another entry in our April Sock Cinematic Universe!

This time...the never-breaking bond of two on-the-run socks...no sock left behind.

THIS GOT LABELED AS MATURE CONTENT hahahahaha

(Music: "Wrench and Numbers" by Jeff Russo, from the Fargo Season One Original Score)

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if we had AOL and would send instant messages; at this time you would see my AIM AWAY MESSAGES: BRB

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I was at the Yankee game (two in one day!) all day today, and didn't get home until lateee, so this is smol and unfinished!

I'm gonna miss smol sundays.

Also! I took metro north to Yankee Stadium, and when I was passing through Harlem, I was like...this looks so familiar. And then I saw the stuffed animal tiger mural, and I went, OH IT'S HILLARY'S SUBWAY FILM! I'M IN IT! It was so cool seeing the original location, and how you translated and transcribed it into your film!

Also also, I'm sad the tints don't work on the leader!!! We shall find a way....or something else that works. The sharpie working and the dotted pattern you made makes me EXCITED!

(Music: "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap, covered by The Queen's Six)

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reports from the front

No. 27/30 April 27 2025 reports from the front experiments with 8mm leader ensue. I wonder if the edwal fototints act differently if they’

this just in!

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WOAH DRIVING MAKES AN APPEARANCE IN MINE

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I was driving a lot today, so I decided to take my camera with me!

I had your shadow film in mind while editing!!!

(Music: "Brown Suede" by Billy Strayhorn)

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I MEAN COME ON!!! LOOK AT THAT!!!!!!

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Day 25

This is "Day 25" by Brandon Raciti on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Straight from the brain stem!

(Music: "No Surprises (early, acoustic)" by Radiohead, "Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056: II. Largo (Arr. For Theremin and Piano" by Bach, performed by Clara Rockmore, Nadia Reisenberg)

(Footage:

"1950s Ski Resort, Glamourous Women Skiing, Fashion, Archive Footage"

"1950s Norway, Winter Holiday Travelogue, Skiing, Ice Skating"

"1960s, 1970s Switzerland, Alpine Ski Resort, Lodge, 35mm"

"1950s, 1960s Austrian Ski Resort, 35mm"

"1950s UK, Skiing in Scotland, 16mm"

"1950s Woman and Children Ice Skating"

All courtesy of Kinolibrary Archive Film Collections on Youtube.

And my own, at the very, very peak of Loveland Mountain in Colorado at the end! )

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there was a cool pink-ish blob which made me think of LIGHT IS CALLING!

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Rage redacted...they're back!

I felt like I had one last shadow film in me for April. There's something about Polo & Pan that just triggers these visuals and moods/ideas for me!

I wrote a whole little limerick/non-sense poem for this one....but could not get it to work in the film at all....the film was pushing to be solely visuals and music, and I kept on resisting lol. So, I'm gonna post it in the vimeo description, as a kind of companion.

But because there was almost no on-screen text or voice over, this one was by far the hardest! So much latent late-April doubt to battle through!

I'm curious to see if you can guess which object I'm using for the main character's shadow hehehe

(Music: "les jolies choses" by Polo & Pan)

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in celebration of embedded videos: a bonus! ... or... a film of the day and the OTHER one was a bonus! you choose!!!