tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Film-Stripography
(updated June 2022e.v.)
{tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE can be contacted @ <idioideo at verizon dot net>}
272. "Epidermoid"
- shot at a nudist mask party in Pittsburgh
- mini-dv, PXL-2000, super-8mm, 35mm slidestrip, 35mm filmstrip -> computer file -> DVD & mini-dv
- 10:49
- shot april 22, 2006 - finished february 12, 2007
251. "Ledger of St Dermain"
- shot in a limestone mine in Brady's Bend, Pennsylvania
- slides, slidestrip, super-8, sampling, scripting, editing, etc: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- mini-DV camcorder: Who is like God? (Pestel)
- sound: Who is like God?s
- lighting: Jarrett Buba
- film to video transfers: Jesse McLean
- Earl Ballard played by: Johnny Evans
- APPARITION of ST Dermain played by: John Allen Gibel
- Thanks to Daniel Bruce for mine access
- mini-DV + slides + slidestrip + super-8 -> DVD
- 6:53
- shot in the spring & summer of '04 / edit made in december '04
243. "Batu Caves"
- shot in Malaysia (& Queen's Queef, Australia)
- starring: etta cetera as Ghanesh
- assistance w/ titling: J-Mew
- VHS + film/slide strips -> VHS
- 5:57
- march '00 / december '03
232. a. "Cuntralia"
- shot in Centralia, PA & Baltimore, MD & Pittsburgh, PA
- black & white negative 35mm filmstrip w/ CD soundtrack
- 15:55
- april, 02 - august, 02
b. "Cuntralia"
- shot in Centralia, PA & Baltimore, MD & Pittsburgh, PA
- black & white negative 35mm filmstrip w/ CD soundtrack
- 5:05
- april, 02 - august, 02
c. "Cuntralia"
- shot in Centralia, PA & Baltimore, MD & Pittsburgh, PA
- black & white negative 35mm filmstrip w/ CD soundtrack
- version meant to be screened via broken "Communicator" portable filmstrip projector
- 1:15
- april, 02 - august, 02
d. "Cuntralia"
- credited to Tim Ore
- shot in Centralia, PA & Baltimore, MD & Pittsburgh, PA
- 1/2" VHS camcorder shooting in Centralia & in sickness scene: Tim Ore; 1/2" VHS camcorder shooting in "Travelling Salesman" scene: Scott Carney; 1/2" VHS camcorder shooting in surgical staples removal scene: Olivia Ciummo; super-8 shooting in "Travelling Salesman" scene: Greg Pierce; starring: Varda & Tim Ore & Lamar Mervine (the 86 year-old mayor of Centralia) as themselves; also starring: Olivia Ciummo & Jessi-Fay Silver as the 'housewives' in the "Travelling Salesman" scene & Jessi-Fay Silver as the nurse in the surgical staples removal scene; Voice-Overs: Tim Ore as himself & Jessi-Fay Silver as Valda; thanks to Ron Douglas for the use of his computer for minor editing
- 1/2" VHS cassette + black & white negative 35mm filmstrip w/ CD soundtrack + super-8 -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 15:35
- april, 02 - september, 02
224. a. "Guitarists Anonymous Withdrawal Aids"
- shot in Pittsburgh & BalTimOre
- 35mm filmstrip + live sample playing
- indeterminate duration
- january, 02
b. "Guitarists Anonymous Withdrawal Aids"
- 35mm slides + live sample playing
- indeterminate duration
- january, 02
c. "Guitarists Anonymous Withdrawal Aids"
- 35mm slides + studio soundtrack of sample playing
- 32:00
- february, 02
d. "Guitarists Anonymous Withdrawal Aids"
- 35mm filmstrip + 35mm slides + studio soundtrack of sample playing + mini-DV + 1/2" VHS cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 32:17
- december 11, 01 - march 16, 02
e. "Guitarists Anonymous Withdrawal Aids"
- w/ the addition of a few crdedit titles including Kent Bye etta cetera for camera & Michael Pestel & Eric Myers for instruments & instrument playing as well as Alex Van Ness, Greg Pierce, & Daryl Fleming as guitar addicts & Linda Gielec as a success story
- 35mm filmstrip + 35mm slides + studio soundtrack of sample playing + mini-DV + 1/2" VHS cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette -> computer -> mini-DV & DVD-R
- 32:41
- december 11, 01 - march 16, 02 / April 23, 09
219. a. "Hibonsa o osoleluna! "Heibon" ga omae o Dame m sulumaeni" ("Kill Normality Before It Kills You")
- This is a compilation of the Nudist Mask movies in chronological order w/ most titles removed & w/ relevant footage from 213a. "Circumsubstantial Playing & Blindfolded Tourism" interspersed. The other movies used are: 20. "Seriousness is Death", 98c. "Tent's Muir" {version 3}, 123. "Nudist Party", 130. "Signs & Symptoms of Leptospirosis", 158 b. "Volunteers Collective XII - The Last Transmission From the Short & Happy Life of a Meteorite Nudist Camp", 163. "Funny Farm Summit Meeting", 178. "Mirthplace of the Republicans", & 204. "Y, 2, Nay-Ked!"
- super-8 & 1/2" VHS cassette & 8mm vaudeo & 16mm & mini-DV -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:11:04
- '82 - '01
b. "Hibonsa o osoleluna! "Heibon" ga omae o Dame m sulumaeni" ("Kill Normality Before It Kills You")
- This adds Karen Eliot's "I agree with tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's position on the Art Strike" & 262. "Epidermoid" & credits as well as a new section on the "Neoist Contest" at the Public Works Festival in Toronto in 1981
- super-8 & 1/2" VHS cassette & 8mm vaudeo & 16mm & mini-DV & PXL-2000 & 35mm slide-strip & 35mm filmstrip -> DVD
- 1:30:49
- '81 - '07 - finished february 24, '07
208. "Very Important"
- This is the 2nd filmstrip compilation that I assembled. It has work by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE; Michael Johnsen; Jennifer Fieber; & etta cetera. As w/ the other compilations that I publish that I've decided to add to this Movieography, I've decided that the editing & the titling make it a work worth pointing out & that the flow between individual works makes it a unique piece unto itself.
01. "Say Cheese! - 5 Days In Wisonsin: House on the Rock" - Oct '98 - Jan '99 - tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - 15:31
02. "Death Bed Aerobics" - July '98 - tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Etta Cetera - 4:58
03. "48 Seatbacks from the Fanuc Test" - July 30, '98 - Michael Johnsen - 5:00
04. "Say Cheese! - 5 Days In Wisonsin: Dreamtime Village" - Oct '98 - Jan '99 - tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - 11:21
05. " A Contribution to an Anonymous History" - '97 - Jennifer Fieber - 11:20
06. "In Perplexing Pursuit of the Prodigy Paleontologist (version 2)" - Oct '98 - Mar '99 - tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE (starring Etta Cetera) - 17:31
07. "Say Cheese! - 5 Days In Wisonsin: Doctor Evermor's" - Oct '98 - Jan '99 - tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - 6:13
08. "The Truth About the Dimensionally Challenged" - '98 - '99 - Etta Cetera - 6:47
09. "Shuffle Mode (take 1)" - Sep - Oct '99 - tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - 3:00
10. "Say Cheese! - 5 Days In Wisonsin: Sid Boyum's" - Oct '98 - Jan '99 - tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - 1:38
11. "Ignorant Recordings D Set, Tutorial D"" - Dec '98 - Michael Johnsen - 7:56
12. "Where We're Trailer #2" - '98 to Nov '99 - tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - 5:34
13. "Say Cheese! - 5 Days In Wisonsin: Hmong Reception for General Vang Pao" - Oct '98 - Jan '99 - tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - 18:38
- December, 1999 or later
- the digitxed online version is 640 X 480, 29.97p, Stereo
- 1:58:31
- on my onesownthoughts YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/mbf86WvSDAo
- on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/very-important_202206
207. a. "Where We're"
- w/ text written by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE etta cetera
- w/ readings from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE; etta cetera; Sharyn Lee Neccai; John Evans; Phat Man Dee
- synthesizer usic from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE w/ violin samples from David Prentice
- shot in Pittsburgh; Founders Grove, Humboldt Redwoods State Park; Black Rock City, Nevada (during Burning Man '99); etc.. - using found filmstrips provided by Jubal Brown + 35mm motion picture film provided by Laura Kikauka
- 35mm filmstrip w/ prerecorded sound
- 2:03:30
- october '98 - november '99
b. "Where We're"
- w/ transfer assistance from John Evans
- 35mm filmstrip & recorded sound transferred to 1/2" VHS cassette both as a filmstrip & as a 35mm film (this latter in 16 ways)
c. "Where We're Trailer #1"
- 35mm filmstrip & recorded sound transferred to 1/2" VHS cassette as a 35mm film (in 16 ways)
- 11:16
- 35mm filmstrip & recorded sound transferred to 1/2" VHS cassette as a 35mm film (in 8 ways) -> 640 X 480, 29.97p, Stereo
- 5:37
- on my onesownthoughts YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/hBP-5DImWZM
- on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/where-were-trailer-2
e. "Where We're" (w/ Windsor Generic Tour)
- In the collection of Peter "Brainpang" Warner
- similar to a. except that various vaudeo f/x are used as well as slightly more complicated transfer techniques + footage from the Generic Tour in Windsor is added + a snippet of mystery footage + additional sound from "Livid at the Schmaltzwald" by John Henry Nyenhuis & tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- 2:01:56
f. "Where We're" (w/ Windsor Generic Tour, etc..)
- similar to e. except that additional footage from the Pittsburgh Generic Tour, the "Black Rectangle over the Eye" presentation in Baltimore (that involved a screening of the filmstrip version of "Where We're"), & the American Urological Association is inserted
- 2:01:56
g. "Where We're" (w/ Windsor Generic Tour, etc..)
- the same thing as f. except that I added some very simple credits at the end
- 2:02:14
- on my onesownthoughts YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/yg8mv_m9IZE
- on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/wherewere_201908
205. a. "Shuffle Mode"
- 35mm filmstrip w/ spoken or prerecorded sound
- 3:03
- september - october '99
- the version available online is 640 X 480, 29.97p, Stereo:
- on my onesownthoughts YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/epWSMqrMiY4
- on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/shuffle-mode_202211
b. "Shuffle Mode"
- slide show w/ spoken or prerecorded sound
- variable duration - app. 5:00
199. a. "In Perplexing Pursuit of the Prodigy Paleontologist" {version 1}
- shot in Northern California @ Lassen National Volcanic Park & @ Founders Grove, Humboldt Redwoods State Park
- 35mm Möbius strip filmstrip & audio cassette
- 18:25
- october '98 / march '99
b. "In Perplexing Pursuit of the Prodigy Paleontologist" {version 2}
- shot at the Southern Rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, at the Painted Desert & Petrified Forest in New Mexico, & at a lava field in New Mexico
- 35mm Mobius strip filmstrip & audio cassette
- 17:31
- october '98 / march '99
- on my onesownthoughts YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/zznfQ0U7rNs
- on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/in-perplexing-pursuit-of-the-prodigy-paleontologist-version-2
198. "Say Cheese! - 5 Days in Wisconsin"
- a trip thru the House on the Rock to Dreamtime Village to Dr. Evermor's Forevertron to Sid Boyum's backyard to the Hmong Reception & Banquet for General Vang Pao at the La Crosse Civic Arena
- with the assistance of Etta Cetera
- 35mm filmstrip & audio cassette
- 53:27
- october '98 - january '99
197. a. "Air Drops" {filmstrip version}
- quasi-documentation of a project in collaboration with Delta Bravo
- with the assistance of Juliet Lima & Sierra Lima Foxtrot November
- 35mm filmstrip
- indefinite duration
- september-november '98
b. "Air Drops" {vaudeo version 1}
- tANGO, aLPHA cHARLIE
- quasi-documentation of a project in collaboration with Delta Bravo
- with the assistance of Alpha Charlie, Juliet Lima, Juliet Papa, Sierra Lima Foxtrot November, & Mike Juliet
- 35mm filmstrip, 8mm vaudeo, slides, stills, audio cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 19:30
- september '97 - september '98
c. "Air Drops" {vaudeo version 2}
- using snippets from Current Affairs Films' "UFO'S: WHO'S WATCHING US?" & George Antheil's 2nd Piano Sonata: "The Airplane" (1st movement)
- 35mm filmstrips, 8mm vaudeo, slides, stills, audio cassettes -> 1/2" VHS cassette -> 640 X 480, 29.97p, Stereo
- 14:20
- september '97 - november '98
- on my onesownthoughts YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/HnT-zipCquM
- on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/air-drops
196. "A History of the Toronto Railway Lands Central & West - Part 3"
- tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE etta cetera
- 35mm filmstrip
- indefinite duration
- august '98
b. "Urban Myth of the Force That Prevents Building on the Railway Lands"
- assistance w/ titling: J-Mew
- VHS + 35mm filmstrip + 35mm slides -> VHS
- 9:00
- summer '98 / december '03
c. "Urban Myth of the Force That Prevents Building on the Railway Lands"
- voice overdub: etta cetera, reenactment camera: Mark O'Connor
- VHS + 35mm filmstrip + 35mm slides -> VHS & mini-DV -> computer -> mini-DV & DVD-R
- 6:01
- summer '98 / december '03 / edit finished May 6, '09
195. "Death Bed Aerobics"
- Party Teen on Couch #2 etta cetera
- 2 35mm filmstrips & audio cassette
- 4:45
- july '98
- on my onesownthoughts YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/AyCQ6hRAxA8
- on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/death-bed-aerobics
180. "FILMSTRIPS"
- a collaboration w/ Orgone Cinema & friends using found filmstrips w/ their original sound + found filmstrips for which new soundtracks were made by Edgar Um-Bucholtz & anonymous & Frauke Johnsen & Greg Pierce & Todd Whitman + found filmstrip sound w/ a new filmstrip made for it by Greg Pierce
- edited by Michael Johnsen & anonymous
- 35mm filmstrips & audio cassettes & records -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 1:01:34
- '96
179. "The Postman Always Rings the Homunculous of Woody Allen & Hollis Frampton Twice"
- 640 X 480, 29.97p, Stereo
- 35mm filmstrip & audio cassette -> 1/2" VHS cassette
- 8:45
- july '96
- on my onesownthoughts YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/ovbUqP23VZ0
- on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/homunculous-of-woody
to the tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE movie-making "Press: Criticism, Interviews, Reviews" home-page
to the "tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - Sprocket Scientist" home-page
to the "FLICKER" home-page for the alternative cinematic experience
to find out more about why the S.P.C.S.M.E.F. (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Sea Monkeys by Experimental Filmmakers) is so important
for info on tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE's tape/CD publishing label: WIdémoUTH
to see an underdeveloped site re the N.A.A.M.C.P. (National Association for the Advancement of Multi-Colored Peoples)