Recipes for Reconstruction: The Cookbook for the Frugal Filmmaker

Special Book and DVD Set Veteran animator and filmmaker Steven Woloshen introduces a variety of simple artistic strategies to create decay and to re-assemble damaged film prints into new experimental visions. This book includes a special DVD (NTSC) with nine short films created specially for this do-it-yourself, “hands-on” manual. An excellent resource for film production courses and workshops. Featuring nine chapters & accompanying films: 1. Chronicle Reconstructions: Creating Reconstructions 2. Zero Visibility: Reproducing Decay and Damage 3. La Dolce Vita: Hasty Archaeology 4. Scrapbook: Correcting Correlations 5. Fleeing Rotland: Revitalizing Obsolete Gauges on 35mm Film 6. The Homestead Act: Using the Earth to Create Decay 7. Editorial: Contact Printing and Film Looping 8. Vista: Abstraction and Reorientation 9. The Rosetta Stone: Creating Hybrid Images ISBN 978-0-9866231-0-3 137 pages, perfect-bound paperback, colour and B&W DVD included Copyright Steven Woloshen, Scratchatopia Books, 2010 Pricing: Post-Secondary Institutions & Libraries: $375.00 (includes educational PPR) Artist-Run Centres: $84.99 (includes educational PPR) Individuals (personal use only): $40.00 All prices + shipping and applicable taxes