COLLECTION NAME:
Don Yannacito Collection
Record
Collection Name:
Don Yannacito Collection
Title:
Caroline Leaf, First Person Cinema
Name:
Leaf, Caroline
Name Role Term Text:
speaker
Name:
Brakhage, Stan
Name Role Term Text:
speaker
Resource Type:
Audio
Genre:
presentations (communicative events)
Place Created:
Boulder (Colo.)
Date Created:
1993-11-01
Language Term:
English
Extent:
1 audiocassette (40 min., 3 sec.)
Form:
audiocassettes
Abstract:
As an event in the First Person Cinema series at the University of Colorado Boulder, filmmaker Caroline Leaf discusses her creative processes, including incorporating sand, scratching 35mm film, and stop-motion animation. Leaf participates in a Q&A section, answering questions about her inspirations, storyboarding, and filmmaking processes. Notes on tape container include "Sand, The Owl Who Married, The Street, The Metamorph, Interview, The Owl and The Pussycat, The Dog Tale, Two Sisters, I Met a Man."
Note:
00:00:00 Leaf explains that the audience will watch her films in the order she made them. She begins with Sand, or Peter and The Wolf, which was one of her student films. 00:01:33 Leaf talks about her method of using beach sand for the film, something she used in other works. She introduces her second film, The Owl Who Married a Goose (1974), and she talks about sound recording in the Arctic. 00:04:13 Leaf introduces The Street (1976), a story about a grandmother who was dying. 00:05:58 Leaf describes the dilemmas of appearance and judgment. 00:07:09 Leaf describes her film Interview (1979), based on an interview with Veronika Soul. 00:07:56 Leaf explains that she stopped working on animation for a time, to focus on short films based on parables. 00:09:12 Leaf introduces A Dog's Tale: A Mexican Parable (1986). 00:10:25 Leaf introduces Two Sisters (1991), describing the process of scratching images on 35mm and avoiding the use of a camera. 00:13:28 Leaf opens up discussion with audience members. 00:13:36 Audience member asks about the process of sand animation compared to other stop motion. 00:14:12 Audience question about scripts. Leaf says that she does not like to storyboard or plan for certain projects. 00:16:24 Audience question about Leaf's choice of soundtracks. Leaf discusses how she chooses actors for her films, saying music is one of the last processes. 00:19:13 Audience member comment about Leaf's animation techniques. Leaf discusses movement and editing, saying she does not necessarily want to recreate the real world. 00:29:19 Audience quesiton about the use of birds in Leaf's films. 00:30:05 Leaf states that sand is a form of metamorphosis.00:30:54 Leaf speaks about being in school and working on her projects at the same time. 00:32:08 Leaf mentions that mistakes during production are added to her film. 00:33:17 Leaf explains the scratching of film processes while in a dark room. 00:34:51 Audio question about the video format used for her films. 00:35:29 Leaf discusses the mixing of abstract and realism. 00:38:59 Stan Brakhage speaks about seeing Leaf's work in the "Best of MTV" program at Telluride, Colorado, along viewing with James Herbert's work. 00:39:52 Leaf thanks the audience. 00:40:03 End of recording.
Note Type:
Timecode description
Subject Topic:
Animation (Cinematography)
Subject Topic:
Motion pictures--Production and direction
Identifier:
narv_yannacitoDon_145_1993-11-01_carolineLeaf_a.mp3
Physical Location:
University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections
Shelf Locator:
COU: 5045 | Tape 145
Date Captured:
2024
Internet Media Type:
audio/mp3
Digital Origin:
born digital
Access Condition:
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