cameraless filmmaking thus far...

So far, I found cameraless filmmaking an awesome experience that has allowed met to be creative in ways that normal filmmaking may not allow. When starting out, my initial reactions were that it felt and looked a lot like experimental films, however, I like creating these films more than I do experimental films. I enjoy how the films have the capabilities to showcase different techniques that cannot be used and bring new meaning to simple things such as collages. A lot more factors need to be taken into consideration when making these films so one is more aware of the nature of the films. For example, it is very easy to slow things down on film in order to show them for however long the filmmaker feels like showing something on the screen. However, with cameraless filmmaking, the duration of an image is a direct result of how much the filmmaker may have of whatever resource to keep the image the same of the screen, or repeating the same image on the frame. So for me, animating anything on a strip of film becomes an arduous task that can become a tedious one as I try to duplicate each image and change the image slightly. Combined with my severe lack of artistic skills when it comes to drawing anything more complicated than a stick figure, I enjoy doing things like magazines transfer more, even though taking a thumb tack to film and scratching it to no end is highly enjoyable, if only to do an activity which others would deem crazy and mildly psychopathic. Fair enough. Speaking of magazine transfers, the awesome fact that it felt more like I was in an elementary school art class (in regards to hacking up paper and letting us put whatever we want on our strips of tape) makes this practice of cameraless filmmaking one of my favorites. I was familiar with taking newspaper and transferring the ink onto nail polish, but it had not occurred to me that something similar could be done with film. Though my focus in film as a whole will be directed towards documentaries, I will definitely continue to work with cameraless filmmaking recreationally.