FILMPUNK

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IDEALISATION: CINEMATIC SPEAKEASY

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IDEALISATION: CINEMATIC SPEAKEASY

Cinema, once ‘corrupted’ by the DIY splicing activities of FILMPUNK, will have to go underground; a portable collection of tools to assist this will be developed. A home-made projector, a form of insulation to block light and sound, a makeshift plinth for the projector to sit on...

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FAKE TAPE

FILMPUNK is sort of tape recording in spirit. iMovie and Garageband are next-gen tape decks in some ways, but requiring less specialist equipment to operate.

 One thing I am sad about: there’s no need for physical cutting and pasting, but this is language that has become so synonymous with the internet that in some ways I suppose it doesn’t matter. It’s therapeutic but not in the same way as taking a pair of scissors and literally doing some physical splicing.

 Taking a tape you owned and recording over parts of it with your own contribution was never illegal (why would it be? It seems ludicrous.)

 Yet today’s equivalent is met with horror, suspicion and possibly this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU

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PULPED: 2ND ‘GOGGLEBOX’ VIEWING VISUAL RESPONSE

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PULPED: 1ST ‘GOGGLEBOX’ VIEWING VISUAL RESPONSE

The first of two recordings of people watching parts of “PULPED”; I also had a conversation with viewers afterwards in order to get verbal feedback, and am compiling this into a pamphlet.

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PULPED

“PULPED” is a re-imagining of Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction”.  The aim is to take an already reference-crammed movie, and extrapolate it beyond the absurd; so that it is unrecognisable as its original self, and becomes a collection of micro-narratives; some lasting only seconds.   In hijacking the already chaotic plot that is “Pulp Fiction”, I hope to expose and understand how narrative works within film, and how it can be subverted to create illusion and mine new material from existing films.

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PULPED premiere poster

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PULPED EXCERPT (”WESTERN” SCENE)

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Throughout FILMPUNK, only “iMovie” has been used as the tool for generating film; the “PUNK” represents a DIY streak that has proliferated throughout. It is possible to create everything produced by FILMPUNK for free and with the most basic of equipment. The processes generated here have made it possible to create a collection of films: without actually filming anything.

The outcome of this has been a collection of films cannibalised from existing material; the final one being “PULPED”; a full re-imagining of Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction”, in which every scene has become a different genre. Despite the addition of external material, editing resulted in a drastically shortened version of the film, made up of sometimes dizzyingly brief micro-narratives; in the form of encounters with other films.

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RECIPES FOR DISASTER: BOMB DEFUSING (UNSUCCESSFUL) GIF

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RECIPES FOR DISASTER: BOMB DEFUSING KEY PT 2 (UNSUCCESSFUL)

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RECIPES FOR DISASTER: BOMB DEFUSING KEY PT 1 (UNSUCCESSFUL)

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RECIPES FOR DISASTER: BOMB DEFUSING KEY PT2 (SUCCESSFUL)

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RECIPES FOR DISASTER: BOMB DEFUSING KEY PT 1 (SUCCESSFUL)

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BOMB DEFUSING DIAGRAM

This diagram explains the general structure of the narrative that is generally made up by a bomb defusing situation. The first part tends to cycle for a while before the narrative continues (represented by the video “Timer. Face. Workings.”), after which the situation goes one of two ways; either panic followed by relief (if the bomb is successfully defused), or panic, detonation, running then aftermath.

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TIMER. FACE. WORKINGS. (RECIPES FOR DISASTER: BOMB DEFUSING PT 1)

I have again focussed on a process which is generally represented in the same ways across film; however, bomb defusing is presented in a slightly more complex way, so I have curated two clips for this purpose, along with an explanatory diagram as well as a key.

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RECIPES FOR DISASTER: EXPLOSIONS KEY

This is the key for the process generally behind explosions when portrayed in cinema; generally including: threat, impact, reaction and aftermath.