Chinese Series

“This film was made on 35mm whereby Stan scratched off the emulsion of the film using his fingernail. The original was step-printed by Mary Beth Reed. This film is available is both 16mm and 35mm and is in black and white.”-Dominic Angerame Scratching on spit-softened emulsion “with bare fingernails,” Stan completed this work — all that he could manage of his long dreamed-of “Chinese Series” — in his bed, a couple of months before his death. Printed by Courtney Hoskins, who has written that: “On the negative, it seemed to have the essence of Chinese characters — “strokes” and blocks, etc. In motion, it seems almost like running through a humid bamboo forest . . . green and yellow stalks create these glowing shadows as they cut across the sunlight.”