The Plants on Film Commissioning project is a collaboration between the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative and the Handmade Film Collective. Over the course of the past four months, filmmakers were asked to create new 16mm films responding to the theme of plants and utilizing one or more handmade filmmaking techniques such as eco-processing, phytogramming, drawing, or tinting.
About the Handmade Film Collective:
The Handmade Film Collective is a group of practicing, enthusiastic, analogue, handmade filmmakers (Dawn George, Rena Thomas, and Herb Theriault) who have come together to showcase experimental analogue handmade films and support other filmmakers working in this specialized genre.
The Vow of Silent Bob; Will He Speak? compiles and rephotographs the in-between moments of the 90s religious fantasy Dogma. It is hand-processed with a developer made from cannabis—the essential sacred plant of the stoner comedy genre. Its audio is an approximation of the original optical soundtrack that drifts clumsily across the surface of the film through DIY contact printing.
- Year2021
- Runtime3 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada
- DirectorTodd Fraser
The Plants on Film Commissioning project is a collaboration between the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative and the Handmade Film Collective. Over the course of the past four months, filmmakers were asked to create new 16mm films responding to the theme of plants and utilizing one or more handmade filmmaking techniques such as eco-processing, phytogramming, drawing, or tinting.
About the Handmade Film Collective:
The Handmade Film Collective is a group of practicing, enthusiastic, analogue, handmade filmmakers (Dawn George, Rena Thomas, and Herb Theriault) who have come together to showcase experimental analogue handmade films and support other filmmakers working in this specialized genre.
The Vow of Silent Bob; Will He Speak? compiles and rephotographs the in-between moments of the 90s religious fantasy Dogma. It is hand-processed with a developer made from cannabis—the essential sacred plant of the stoner comedy genre. Its audio is an approximation of the original optical soundtrack that drifts clumsily across the surface of the film through DIY contact printing.
- Year2021
- Runtime3 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada
- DirectorTodd Fraser