Lost Leaders: Countdowns and the Metadata of Film (2011 – )

Matt Soar in collaboration with Jackie Gallant

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Lost Leaders #3 (short film)

October 28, 2012

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.

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←Older: Lost Leaders #2 (interactive)

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 …

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Newer: Lost Leaders #4 (interactive)→

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 …

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    I am always interested in collecting more leaders: the ordinary, the obscure, or downright peculiar. Any language, any format, any condition; with or without the 'actual' films attached. Just let me know! In most cases I can pay reasonable shipping costs, or collect (depending on location).
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    This research-creation project is the work of Matt Soar, intermedia artist, filmmaker, and Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, in occasional collaboration with sound artist Jackie Gallant.

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    I am indebted to Snowden Becker (UCLA) in particular, and: Library of Congress (George Willeman, Michael Hinton, Mike Mashon, Laurel Howard), Dan Streible (NYU), Margaret Compton (Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection), Craig Baldwin, Rick Prelinger (USC), Stephen Parr (Oddball).

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  • ©2011 Lost Leaders: Countdowns and the Metadata of Film. All rights reserved. From 2011 to 2014 Lost Leaders was indirectly supported by a research-creation grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. It’s currently running on a wing and prayer.

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