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

Matt Soar (Concordia University) with Jackie Gallant

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Lost Leaders #8 (short film)

December 5, 2013

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.

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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 …

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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 …

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  • Take me to your leaders!

    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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