Went to Mayne Island last weekend for a wedding, and filmed some things around the island with the bolex. As luck would have it, either the bolex was empty, or had the wrong kind of film in it whenever I stumbled into something I wanted to shoot. So I used my cellphone instead. really low rez, but it worked. Mike Wolske made the music. And in other news, we finished shooting a new MeatDraw video for their song Old World last weekend. I still need to do some tweaking, but it should be finished soon, and posted online. In the next couple weeks - Upcoming Screenings - Grass is Playing in Australia at the FLEXIFF Festival, and  Turbulence and Glimpse are playing in Seattle at the NorthWest Film Forum. Birds is playing at the Portobello in England. Unfortunately I can t go to see any of them, but maybe you can.

Another installment of the film-a-week-project. Colour 16mm. Close-up lenses duct-taped to the camera. surreal textures. dreamscape. Lots of other projects in the works, and back to UVic in a week. Seems like there aren t enough hours. Doing a residency at CineVic right now, working on the Steenbeck to finish off a short film about D Arcy Island sponsored by the NFB s Filmmaker s Assistance Program. Spent the last few days (and the next few also) gearing up for a MeatDraw video that will be shot next week. Four minutes. One continuous shot. From earth to space and back spanning over 3 days. Quite an endeavour, but fun problem-solving. We built the asteroids, clouds and stars yesterday, next we re modding a red wagon into a rocketship, and building satellites. Busy and exciting times.

It has been a busy summer trying to keep up with everything, but a few more weekly film exercises are getting finished up. This one is called oxide and is a snippit of colour 16mm film. I ve been playing around with extension tubes and close-up lenses duct-taped to a Bolex. Some interesting surreal textures when you look at the world so closely. The soundtrack is courtesy of Mike Wolske.

My Bolex died. In the middle of a shoot. This is the last thing it recorded. I m calling it Swansong. My friend Gerald Saul, who has been making a film-a-week this year as well (and, unlike me, is keeping up with it) did a series of films called How to be an Experimental Filmmaker I like the idea, so I made a list that accompanies this week s film How to be an Experimental Filmmaker Step #1 - Use old, antiquated equipment Step #2  - Get professionals to be your on-screen talent. Make sure they have flown in from another country Step #3 - Forget to close the gate on the camera. Blame the old equipment. (see Step #1) Step #4  Have the camera completely break down half-way through the shoot (see Step #1) Step #5 - Tint and tone the blurry footage and release it on the internet Step #6 - Pretend that the film ended up exactly as you had planned. The ghostly image is Carly Berrett, an incredible modern dancer from Utah. We met during MediaNet s Dance for the Camera Workshop a couple weeks ago. Lots of fun. Embarrassing that half of the footage didn t work out.   Fortunately, most of the other footage worked out and will be made into a different film, the film I had initially intended to do (without some of the parts.) Still a lot of post production to do on that, so in the meantime, here is the final film that ran through my Bolex. I find it mesmerizing. Mike Wolske made the soundtrack, but I played around with it a bit.

An experiment with acrylic paints, india inks and drain cleaner on an old 16mm film (I think there s some dog hair in there too) The soundtrack was made by Clifford Dunn in Seattle, who makes some crazy experimental soundscape stuff with a flute and processor (among other things, I m sure) Check out his website: http://www.clifforddunnmusic.com

This month at Open Space: The Deceleration Chamber. The Deceleration Chamber is concerned with two entangled ideas: the elasticity of time—especially slow time—and how time is specifically experienced when one is away from familiar surroundings: on tour, traveling or on vacation. Encountering the unfamiliar, being lost or disorientated affects how time is perceived, how data is recorded and recollected, and how all of us choose the mode by which we measure, mark or experience the passage of time. Artists Scott Amos, Frédérick Belzile, Scott Conarroe, Nathalie Daoust, and Daniel Tom explore differential time scales and refer to time not only as interval or measurement, but also as an active element in the construction of art. The Deceleration Chamber offers compelling time studies that directly and indirectly play off the habits, schedules and the erratic timetables of permanent and transitory populations. It s up until August 16th at 510 Fort St. in Victoria, from 10 to 5 Tuesday through Saturday. With the help of Brian Macdonald and the the staff and volunteers at Open Space, I installed a 9 channel video installation for the show titled Our Victoria. This is a clip from the ninth channel. Colin Hander and Mike Wolske did the sound. Here s the little Blurb I wrote up about the piece. Victoria is a city of postcard images, but the most impressive things never seem to make it to the printer. The Inner Harbour and the Parliament Buildings provide the background for millions of snapshots a year; They are the basis of visitors memories of our city. Although they are a part of our city, they are not the places that we frequent, the Victoria that we know and love. They are the parts that we show to others. The magical parts of the city we keep to ourselves. When visiting other places, time passes differently, more slowly, you take notice of little details: the weathered bricks on a building, the intricacies of power lines, the reflections in windows. Everyday objects and places are rendered extraordinary by simply taking the time to observe them. Our hometowns have similar delicate features, but we seldom notice. They are simply distractions that we pass by. Our Victoria is a nine channel video installation, made to emulate old home movies. Although filmed in 2006, it looks as though it s from past decades. The nine televisions are nine individual rolls of film, raw and unedited to emulate the frenetic nature of home movies and the raw memories they capture. It is an intimate look into the places that only the most adventurous visitors will see, the places that you won t see in brochures, the places that have not yet been reduced to postcards. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

Here it is folks. A new music video for Hank and Lily s Xanadu. The song is from there newly-released album North America. Of course, it stars both Hank and Lily. I love this song! They re doing some touring this summer through Ontario and Alberta, and you can find the schedule on their MySpace page here. I could gush about how great Hank and Lily are, but instead I ll just say - If you only see one show this summer, go see Hank and Lily. Seriously. Ask anyone who has ever seen the show; I wish I could describe it in words. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Here it is in action, the mechanical set that I built in the basement too bad it s only for a little bit of screen time, I ll have to use it again for another film.

And we ve hit the halfway point in the year, so this should be podcast #26 but it s not. It s only podcast #21. what can I say? It has been a lot of work and I ve still got some catching up to do. There are a couple pieces that I never posted, because I believe that there is nothing interesting about them. Maybe I m my own worst critic, but I really think they are void of anything worthwhile, so I couldn t bring myself to share them with the world. And, on that note, here is podcast #21. It is called Primordial Soup - Part 2. Part 1 is currently in another town, having music composed for it. It s called Primordial Soup because I threw a bunch of clear acrylic, ink, pencil crayon shavings, ashes, hairs, rust, and anything else I could find into a bucket with some chemically treated film to see if any life would emerge from it. It had a rough time getting through the projector and is now ruined. But there is some life. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

Along the same lines as Flypaper , the last podcast. This time, I collected bits and pieces from around the garden, dried them out, broke them up, and taped them to a strip of 16mm film. The results aren t as unique as flypaper, but I had to give it a try. The colours of a lot of the flower petals were lost in the drying process because I dried them under lights (I m so impatient.) Next time, I ll collect a better variety of coloured flower petals, and make sure they re thin enough to let light through. Now I m wondering what else I can tape to film. Unfortunately, if it s not thin enough, it bulges when going through the gate, and the focus gets lost. Thinking I might do some frame-by frame transfer to 16mm to have a little more control. Might not have enough patience for that. We ll see. This film was inspired by Stan Brakhage. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

This new film is for the Seek Cover show tonight at The Project. The idea behind Seek Cover is to create a new artwork (performance, painting, anything goes) based on an existing artwork. I made a film, inspired by Stan Brakhage s Mothlight. I collected all of the dead bugs out of the windowsills in the house, and our neighbour s house, dissected them, and taped them to strips of 16mm film. flys, bees, a spider, a moth, and a few giant mosquito-lookin things. I felt a little weird doing it, but the results are pretty cool. I think part of the charm of it is the texture created by the tape, and the air bubbles and fingerprints it trapped. I m calling the piece Flypaper. In the spirit of Brakhage, I didn t put a musical soundtrack to it, instead I just recorded the sound of the 16mm projector as I was digitizing it. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

As the days get longer and the end of June approaches, I realize that I m more-than-a-little-behind in the film-a-week project. Spent the last week doing JumpCuts for the Victoria Film Festival, and other projects have come up, burying my pet project. For now. I m still working on it, and a whole bunch of other things: a new video for Hank and Lily that we ll finish shooting next week and we re in the planning stages of a new MeatDraw video as well. Getting prepared to shoot an NFB sponsored experimental short film on D Arcy Island, and a video installation at Open Space in July. And then there s the feature. We ll talk about the feature later. For now, here is the next installment of the film-a-week project. Last year, I found a dinosaur on my doorstep. It turns out that a friend of mine found it and left it for me. I doesn t use tapes, it just has a composite video out. I tested it, with no luck, so I left it in my closet. Recently, I fished it out to disassemble it for parts to use for the Hank and Lily video set, but before I could bring myself to take it apart, I decided to test it one more time. It works. I m shocked. I m fascinated by the way it reacts with light. different than film, different than DV. Interesting. So here s a little test I did with it, intentionally out of focus, and blown out, with the video signal piped into my miniDV camera to record it. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

The newer pieces are still in the works. I was away in Vancouver and Whistler this week, collecting new footage, but had to bring the film back home for developing. So, I m putting up an older piece, called Memory Lapse. It won the Best Short Fiction award at the Lausanne Underground Film Fest, and screened at a bunch of different festivals. It also inspired an older video podcast that I did called Other Peoples Memories, that was clips of old 8mm home movies that I collect, strangers home movies. Michael Lee Macdonald did the animation, and Mike Wolske did the music. You can also find it on the MediaNet Video Podcast. And, this week, we re being featured on Miro, you can check it out here. It s an Internet TV aggregator. There are more than 4000 different channels. Pretty cool stuff. And we re listed at Canadapodcasts.ca now too. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

Made this one for the Victoria Film Festival s My Victoria Film contest. They wanted a one-minute Victoria-centric film. While wandering around the immerweb, trying to figure out what to do for the film, I stumbled into the the raciest historical tidbit about my quaint little town. It s about an architect named Francis Rattenbury. Adultery. Murder. Juicy stuff. Here is the film I made: I ended up winning the Capital History Award for it, and did a little interview with the Susan McLean from the Provincial Capital Commission. I found it online here: http://www.bcpcc.com/pages/news.htm Rattenbury scandal provides fodder for Capital History Award winner March 2008 - Not only did Francis Rattenbury design Victoria’s signature buildings, including the Parliament Buildings, the Empress Hotel, the Crystal Garden and the CP Steamship terminal, but the renowned architect was a key character in the raciest scandal of the 1920s and 30s. The steamier side of Rattenbury from leaving his wife for a younger woman to his murder in England by his chauffer who was having an affair with his second wife, through to her stabbing death provided a smorgasbord of tantalizing historical tidbits and fascinating imagery for Victoria filmmaker Scott Amos. Combining archival photographs and new video footage, Amos pieced together Rattenbury’s sordid final years for his short film “Victim of an Evil Seductress” to win the Provincial Capital Commission’s Capital History Award at this year’s Victoria Film Festival. Thanks to the internet, Scott was able to conduct much of his research on the renowned architect, accessing historical information and archived photographs. Using a 1952 16-mm Bolex camera, he began filming. Working out of his basement, Scott processed the film in buckets of chemicals, deliberately scratching the black and white film to make it look old. Originally from Ontario, Amos hitchhiked to Victoria 10 years ago, with a guitar on his back and $20 in his pocket. It’s the story films are made of and was the topic of his second film entered in this year’s festival entitled “Waiting. Earning some money busking in Bastion Square, he eventually earned a writing degree from the University of Victoria, where one of his professors handed him a video camera for a film project. It was a pivotal moment in Scott’s life. “I got myself into huge debt buying equipment,” he laughed. He also started making short films. Now a Teacher’s Assistant in UVic’s Fine Arts Department and working at Medianet, a video co-op business, Amos is a five-year veteran of the Victoria Film Festival. The My Victoria category suits his style, he says, providing an avenue to show off his work. “I make a lot of Island-centric movies. “The festival is a great way to be exposed to artistic work that you wouldn’t normally see,” he said. “There’s a lot of local and Canadian content and it’s great to see what’s happening in my field. The My Victoria competition is an opportunity for local artists to have their work shown on the Big Screen and to expose people to the unique voices of the local independent film community, he added. It also provides an incentive to film a changing world, he noted. Amos is the first to admit the world, as most people see it, isn’t his cup of tea. “The real world doesn’t interest me,” he said. “I live it every day so I don’t need to film it. I’d rather film a world that doesn’t exist or to see the existing world in a way I’ve never seen it before. But add an experimental twist and it’s award time for Amos.

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Made this one for the Victoria Film Festival s My Victoria Film contest. They wanted a one-minute Victoria-centric film. While wandering around the immerweb, trying to figure out what to do for the film, I stumbled into the the raciest historical tidbit about my quaint little town. It s about an architect named Francis Rattenbury. Adultery. Murder. Juicy stuff. Here is the film I made: I ended up winning the Capital History Award for it, and did a little interview with the Susan McLean from the Provincial Capital Commission. I found it online here: http://www.bcpcc.com/pages/news.htm Rattenbury scandal provides fodder for Capital History Award winner March 2008 - Not only did Francis Rattenbury design Victoria’s signature buildings, including the Parliament Buildings, the Empress Hotel, the Crystal Garden and the CP Steamship terminal, but the renowned architect was a key character in the raciest scandal of the 1920s and 30s. The steamier side of Rattenbury from leaving his wife for a younger woman to his murder in England by his chauffer who was having an affair with his second wife, through to her stabbing death provided a smorgasbord of tantalizing historical tidbits and fascinating imagery for Victoria filmmaker Scott Amos. Combining archival photographs and new video footage, Amos pieced together Rattenbury’s sordid final years for his short film “Victim of an Evil Seductress” to win the Provincial Capital Commission’s Capital History Award at this year’s Victoria Film Festival. Thanks to the internet, Scott was able to conduct much of his research on the renowned architect, accessing historical information and archived photographs. Using a 1952 16-mm Bolex camera, he began filming. Working out of his basement, Scott processed the film in buckets of chemicals, deliberately scratching the black and white film to make it look old. Originally from Ontario, Amos hitchhiked to Victoria 10 years ago, with a guitar on his back and $20 in his pocket. It’s the story films are made of and was the topic of his second film entered in this year’s festival entitled “Waiting. Earning some money busking in Bastion Square, he eventually earned a writing degree from the University of Victoria, where one of his professors handed him a video camera for a film project. It was a pivotal moment in Scott’s life. “I got myself into huge debt buying equipment,” he laughed. He also started making short films. Now a Teacher’s Assistant in UVic’s Fine Arts Department and working at Medianet, a video co-op business, Amos is a five-year veteran of the Victoria Film Festival. The My Victoria category suits his style, he says, providing an avenue to show off his work. “I make a lot of Island-centric movies. “The festival is a great way to be exposed to artistic work that you wouldn’t normally see,” he said. “There’s a lot of local and Canadian content and it’s great to see what’s happening in my field. The My Victoria competition is an opportunity for local artists to have their work shown on the Big Screen and to expose people to the unique voices of the local independent film community, he added. It also provides an incentive to film a changing world, he noted. Amos is the first to admit the world, as most people see it, isn’t his cup of tea. “The real world doesn’t interest me,” he said. “I live it every day so I don’t need to film it. I’d rather film a world that doesn’t exist or to see the existing world in a way I’ve never seen it before. But add an experimental twist and it’s award time for Amos.

This started as an old educational film called I am Joe s Spine. And then I wrecked it a bunch. I buried myself in my basement lab, and listened continuously to the new Run Chico Run CD that I got. It s called Rocket Surgery and it s fantastic. Thankfully, the band has let me use a snippit of their song Slow to accompany the film, so you can hear how cool it is yourself. Their myspace is here, and their website is here, but I have no idea where to buy the album. I got it at their show it s on green vinyl too! Did you hear that? GREEN VINYL. Badass. I Am Fine was made by scratching at the old film, with a bit of chemical manipulation, and then some compositing and digital effects on the ol computer. I m hoping the Chicos ll let me make them a music video over the summer. we ll see. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video and, like I promised, here is the Quicktime version.

This started as an old educational film called I am Joe s Spine. And then I wrecked it a bunch. I buried myself in my basement lab, and listened continuously to the new Run Chico Run CD that I got. It s called Rocket Surgery and it s fantastic. Thankfully, the band has let me use a snippit of their song Slow to accompany the film, so you can hear how cool it is yourself. Their myspace is here, and their website is here, but I have no idea where to buy the album. I got it at their show it s on green vinyl too! Did you hear that? GREEN VINYL. Badass. I Am Fine was made by scratching at the old film, with a bit of chemical manipulation, and then some compositing and digital effects on the ol computer. I m hoping the Chicos ll let me make them a music video over the summer. we ll see. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video and, like I promised, here is the Quicktime version.

Round number next in the film-a-week project. This is some 16mm film that I found in my basement, that I had shot, but never processed. Now that I can look at it, although I shot it for no particular reason, it seems to have some meaning to it. It s a little cliche, so I couldn t bring myself to say it outright, but it s there in the footage. It has to do with perception or something like that. Perhaps the creepiest thing I ve ever made. You were warned. Film by Scott Amos, Music by Mike Wolske. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video And over the next week, I ve decided to repost all the past episodes in Quicktime format for a video podcast. I just can t handle how bad YouTube mangles everything.

Round number next in the film-a-week project. This is some 16mm film that I found in my basement, that I had shot, but never processed. Now that I can look at it, although I shot it for no particular reason, it seems to have some meaning to it. It s a little cliche, so I couldn t bring myself to say it outright, but it s there in the footage. It has to do with perception or something like that. Perhaps the creepiest thing I ve ever made. You were warned. Film by Scott Amos, Music by Mike Wolske. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video And over the next week, I ve decided to repost all the past episodes in Quicktime format for a video podcast. I just can t handle how bad YouTube mangles everything.

This is a little experiment I did, making inkblots with clear acrylic and india ink. I pressed as many copies as I could, then took photographs of them, and lined them up, overlayed and composited them. I threw a little motion blur on them too, to smooth out everything. Some interesting textures. Part 13 of the 2008 film-a-week project. Film by Scott Amos, music by Mike Wolske (altered by Scott Amos) You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video And a higher quality Quicktime

This is a little experiment I did, making inkblots with clear acrylic and india ink. I pressed as many copies as I could, then took photographs of them, and lined them up, overlayed and composited them. I threw a little motion blur on them too, to smooth out everything. Some interesting textures. Part 13 of the 2008 film-a-week project. Film by Scott Amos, music by Mike Wolske (altered by Scott Amos) You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video And a higher quality Quicktime

A fear and worry of mine. On celluloid. Shot on 16mm film and hand-processed. Initially created and screened on 16mm with live music performed by Rozalind MacPhail for MediaNet s One-Minute Challenge. This is a digitized version with a re-recorded soundtrack. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video And here is a Quicktime version that is much cleaner (and not mangled by the YouTube compression)

A fear and worry of mine. On celluloid. Shot on 16mm film and hand-processed. Initially created and screened on 16mm with live music performed by Rozalind MacPhail for MediaNet s One-Minute Challenge. This is a digitized version with a re-recorded soundtrack. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video And here is a Quicktime version that is much cleaner (and not mangled by the YouTube compression)

While in Dawson City, I managed to catch The Burning Hell at Diamond-Tooth Gerties, and they were nice enough to let me film them. Fun band. The song is called The Second Cigarette and is on their album Happy Birthday. I believe you can purchase it through weewerk records. The background was filmed on Sombrio Beach (it s a campfire.) It was shot on black and white film, so I tinted it and composited it with the band footage. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video And here is a less-chunky Quicktime version

While in Dawson City, I managed to catch The Burning Hell at Diamond-Tooth Gerties, and they were nice enough to let me film them. Fun band. The song is called The Second Cigarette and is on their album Happy Birthday. I believe you can purchase it through weewerk records. The background was filmed on Sombrio Beach (it s a campfire.) It was shot on black and white film, so I tinted it and composited it with the band footage. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video And here is a less-chunky Quicktime version

I filmed this one on trip back from Dawson City. It was an Air North flight from Whitehorse to Vancouver. I filmed it on colour film and must ve botched the processing it s all washy-looking. I was daydreaming on the plane. There s more footage from Dawson that I haven t figured out what to do with. I m sure it ll sneak its way into a future short. I traveled up there for the Dawson City International Short Film Festival, as a visiting filmmaker and to speak on a panel about distribution. Stayed at Bombay Peggy s. Awesome. Met a tonne of fantastic people. Braved the cold for an outdoor screening. Mastered the 10-minute-pint-between-screenings. I m hoping to get back up there next year. Before my trip, I was told that Dawson was one of those magical places; after being there, I ll have to agree. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Quicktime:

I filmed this one on trip back from Dawson City. It was an Air North flight from Whitehorse to Vancouver. I filmed it on colour film and must ve botched the processing it s all washy-looking. I was daydreaming on the plane. There s more footage from Dawson that I haven t figured out what to do with. I m sure it ll sneak its way into a future short. I traveled up there for the Dawson City International Short Film Festival, as a visiting filmmaker and to speak on a panel about distribution. Stayed at Bombay Peggy s. Awesome. Met a tonne of fantastic people. Braved the cold for an outdoor screening. Mastered the 10-minute-pint-between-screenings. I m hoping to get back up there next year. Before my trip, I was told that Dawson was one of those magical places; after being there, I ll have to agree. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Quicktime:

It was on old 16mm educational film, until I doused it in bleach, and spraypainted it. Now it s something else. Here s the trick - if you freeze the spraypaint can, it sprays slow and clumpy, instead of misty. Vince Lombardi cut it and Mike Wolske did the music. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Quicktime version

It was on old 16mm educational film, until I doused it in bleach, and spraypainted it. Now it s something else. Here s the trick - if you freeze the spraypaint can, it sprays slow and clumpy, instead of misty. Vince Lombardi cut it and Mike Wolske did the music. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Quicktime version

This is the part where I make a bunch of excuses why I haven t posted my weekly video for more than a month. Excuse #1 - made a couple films for MediaNet s One-Minute Challenge, which screened on 16mm film, Youtube won t let me upload 16mm, so I ve had to wait until now to transfer it to digital. Excuse #2 - I was in Calgary for the $100 Film Festival, where Grass was playing (and won the Best Super 8 Award). Excuse #3 - I was in Dawson City for the International Short Film Festival, where both Sometimes and Grass were playing. Excuse #4 - I had the flu. Hallucinating. Awesome. All excuses aside, I ve got the films done now, and will be putting them up over the next few days, in no particular order. First up is windowpane. I shot it in Calgary, while I was there for the $100 Film Festival. Good times. The Calgarians are a lot of fun, and took great care of me, (thanks Mels!) While wandering around with the Bolex and Luke Black (one of the bunch of really cool folks I met at the CSIF,) we found a window, leaned against a fence in an alley, covered in mildew and frost. With a macro lens, I explored it. Shot on 16mm film and hand-processed by Scott Amos, Music by Mike Wolske. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Quicktime:

This is the part where I make a bunch of excuses why I haven t posted my weekly video for more than a month. Excuse #1 - made a couple films for MediaNet s One-Minute Challenge, which screened on 16mm film, Youtube won t let me upload 16mm, so I ve had to wait until now to transfer it to digital. Excuse #2 - I was in Calgary for the $100 Film Festival, where Grass was playing (and won the Best Super 8 Award). Excuse #3 - I was in Dawson City for the International Short Film Festival, where both Sometimes and Grass were playing. Excuse #4 - I had the flu. Hallucinating. Awesome. All excuses aside, I ve got the films done now, and will be putting them up over the next few days, in no particular order. First up is windowpane. I shot it in Calgary, while I was there for the $100 Film Festival. Good times. The Calgarians are a lot of fun, and took great care of me, (thanks Mels!) While wandering around with the Bolex and Luke Black (one of the bunch of really cool folks I met at the CSIF,) we found a window, leaned against a fence in an alley, covered in mildew and frost. With a macro lens, I explored it. Shot on 16mm film and hand-processed by Scott Amos, Music by Mike Wolske. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Quicktime: