Joel Schlemowitz
Eye Music, 1997, 16mm, color, silent, 2.5 minutes
"To achieve a musical feel for the scratching, I listened to a piece of music (Massenet's Elegie) and made marks with a sharpie for each note on a piece of clear leader as it passed along at sound speed on the editing machine. I then used this clear leader as a template for the rhythmic pace of the scratches. The appearance of different shapes and colors in the middle section parallels the "development section" which comes in the middle of a piece of music in the sonata form. There was never any consideration of using sound in this film: I wanted to have the sound be created in the mind of the audience as they watched the images."
Übel, 1992, 16mm, B&W, sound, 6 minutes
"Five variations
on an unfriendly looking object."
Invitation to a Voyage, 1997, 16mm, color/B&W, sound, 4 minutes
"After Henri Duparc's setting of the poem by Baudelaire, which is heard in faint echo on the soundtrack."
Joel Schlemowitz's homepage:
http://homepage.newschool.edu/~schlemoj/imptopia/joel_schlemowitz.html