Cold Fried Chicken2010

Cold Fried Chicken is a silent film which consists of two rolls of 8mm film laid side-by-side and spliced together with a frame or two of 16mm film in between. The images in this process alternate with footage I shot myself and found footage. Most scenes are only a few frames long or even shorter. The sprocket holes of the film can be seen because 8mm film is laid side-by-side. I got the idea for this film because 8mm film is 16mm film split down the middle. So in a sense I glued them back together except a line down the middle where the two films meet can be seen. I also flipped the film around so that holes are in different places from one frame to the next or no holes are to be seen at all, or I spliced the films in different ways so that the splice is sometimes hidden and other times its part of the composition. This film is silent because I didn#t want any sound to interfere with the rhythm, construction, and color composition. This film has a "craftsman#s hands-on-process" feel that can not be done by conceptual means. Tools of the trade like scissors and glue have a different quality, which I feel cannot be replaced by more modern computer programs.