Hey Zensteve,
this film was made with a technique I found by mistake while working at my job. I was bored, so I started taking some random long-exposure pictures. I took a bunch and then I started going across all of them, pressing the "next" button very fast. That's when I though that using long-exposure pictures as "frames" for a video would make something cool - it also reminded me of Brakhage's painted films - , so I made this first video :
https://vimeo.com/29813728
Then, I thought I could apply it in a moving-portrait (a portrait in the traditional sense is a still image of someone). So, this film is actually a bunch of long-exposure pictures being animated . What I mean by it is kind of hard to explain, but for me it goes something like : long-exposure pictures "freeze" the movement, using them as "frames" and re-animating them makes the film an interesting experience. So it's an exploration on time and movement, duration and perception.
Some frames are repeated, but I took a lot (a lot) of pictures and used Lightroom to get the colors right.
The sound design is an homage to Frampton's T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihTynFLMy2Y). In the back, we can hear me and the performer talk about the film we're going to make (we're speaking in french), but you can hardly hear it. The film itself doesn't let you hear it, because of it's rythm.
I HOPE Michael Bay does a 3D version of it, of course!
I don't know what's next. I made a film similar to this one, but this time it was a landscape. They screened it in an art gallery, it was nice.
I'd like to keep on exploring this technique, if anyone has tips or any idea on how to make it better, do tell!
