I decided to make a 16mm animation with found footage. I looked through johnie's collection and was mainly interested in the videos about teeth made by the American Dentist Association. At the beginning of the term I was working digitally and made a couple animations using photoshop. However, I think that I chose to do 16 mm to animate because I like to draw directly onto the film. I also think it is easier to understand how motion moves. My process for this animation was to scratch into the film with awls and draw transition shapes between scenes of collected footage.
I mainly tried to rotoscope over found footage.
While I was working I was mainly thinking about how I felt like a dentist scraping between the images of teeth.
For the sound, I think parts of it really work just from splicing the clip but I wanted to go in and edit the sound but then........................when i put the film through I forgot to make the loop in the film and then it ripped like 4 for every 8 hole on the track.......so i tried to fix them. ...... but haven't touched the machine since.......
Patti Smith performing Pale Blue Eyes in Stolckholm 1976
Patti Smith was born in Chicago in 1946 and raised in New Jersey and moved to New York City where she met Mapplethorpe. She is a poet, songwriter, singer, author, and a ROCK AND ROLLLLLLLLLLL heartthrob!
Her first poetry reading was in 1971. She read this poem, "Oath" while Lenny Kane played on the Guitar.
Patti Smith visits grave sights of artists she loves and takes polaroid pictures with them.
Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith, photographed by Norman Seeff at a friend’s apartment on New York City’s Upper West Side, 1969.
Photograph by Norman Seeff.
She wrote Just Kids about her relationship with Mapplethorpe.
When reading her writing about Robert Mapplethorpe it seems like its just honest writing. Honest about how she looked at Mapplethorpe. I felt like I was in love with him even though I never knew him.
