Author Archives: Matt

Margaret Compton (archivist, Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection) continues to be a great supporter of the Lost Leaders project, especially in terms of locating historical examples of countdown leaders. Her latest find: an early 1970s NASA … Continue reading→

This is the first in a planned series of three or four (very) short ‘handwritten’ films created as part of the Lost Leaders project. Since handwriting is often in evidence on leaders, which are themselves hidden and bracketed off from … Continue reading→

Lost Leaders #1 was created by weaving together thinly cut strips of found footage into other, unrelated pieces, all of it scavenged from a bin at the Film Farm. I’ve been wanting to return to this method for a while, … Continue reading→

My residency at the Banff Centre in October 2014 gave me an invaluable opportunity to start working with the materials I’d accessed in the nitrate film vaults at the Library of Congress in Culpeper VA, and during a day-long visit … Continue reading→

In early 2014 I decided to try my hand at stained glass. I had already spent a couple of years creating photomontages using layered leaders, photographed on a lightbox. Some of these were mainly interesting for their contrasting areas of … Continue reading→

This is the third in a series of meanderings across the surface of film, with audio accompaniment by Jackie Gallant. Editing by Dayna McLeod.

Seventy-two still-image compositions, combining found footage and leader graphics (no sound). Created at a cameraless filmmaking workshop at Main Film, led by Steve Woloshen. Frames shot using Steve’s Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner. (It’s a neat little device, but it has … Continue reading→

This is the second in a series of short excursions across the surface of film, with musical accompaniment by Jackie Gallant, and editing by Dayna McLeod. Take a walk with us.

Layers of 35mm found footage being passed under a digital microscope. (Extreme close-up of handwriting on movie trailer leader.) Sound design by Jackie Gallant. Edited by Dayna McLeod.

Working with video as a field of thumbnail-size compositions, each with sound. WATCH/PLAY: Lost Leaders #5 (Korsakow) NB Korsakow films do not currently play on mobile devices such as iPads.

A more refined film, incorporating some elements from LL#2, but with more material, six videos sequences, and a more self-conscious relationship between the various sound sources (background, rollover, video): WATCH/PLAY: Lost Leaders #4 (Korsakow) NB Korsakow films do not currently … Continue reading→

AKA ‘Baby Deer’. The text is appropriated from a movie trailer, re-animated using stopmotion and a microscope, then shot off screen. Sound design by Jackie Gallant.

First attempt at a Korsakow (ie interactive) film incorporating some of the lightbox stills combined into video previews, plus video shot through the microscope as main content. There are three sources of sound: background, rollover/preview, and main content: WATCH/PLAY: Lost … Continue reading→

Found footage: 35mm commercial leaders taken from movie trailers bought on eBay. Experiments with layering, colour and composition. Shot with an iPhone 4S and a macro lens attachment.

Lost Leaders #1 (16mm to digital, 50 secs). Found footage, hand-woven together. Created during the Independent Imaging Retreat, aka the Film Farm (Mount Forest, Ontario, 2011). Soundtrack added in 2012; composed and performed by Jackie Gallant.