seajon

http://www.alexanderstewart.org/film2.html
http://www.petermiller.info/seajon.html

Seajon. A psychedelic film from the midwest.

Seajon is a film that I made with Alexander Stewart. In fact, this description comes from his website. We had recently been at a party where we were informed by our friend Andy Roche that "everyone knows that the only real film is psychedelic film from Iowa." Andy is a filmmaker whose documentary Born to Live Life is the greatest, and perhaps only, psychedelic film from/about Iowa ever made. Peter and I took this as a challenge to create a psychedelic film that, while not from Iowa, would at least be from the midwest.

Not knowing exactly what a psychedelic film from the midwest might look like, we started with a shared interest in stop-motion animation, and a desire to re-create the hologram effects used by George Lucas in the first Star Wars movie. We locked ourselves in our apartment for a weekend, and hashed out the details. We used a combination of video and double-exposed film to create the holograms, much in the same way that we surmise Lucas did. Just as we were rolling with the project, the news came to us from downstairs that our landlord had just gotten a new baby, a son named Seajon. In what we assumed was a classic psychedelic move, we incorporated this interesting name into our project right away. Seajon? Seajon! SEAJON.

We shot the animation and hologram sequences over the course of the weekend. Inexplicably, we didn't get around to processing the roll of film for several months. When we finally did, what we saw projected onto our humble screen was one of the finest and truest testaments to psychedelia that this midwest has ever seen. We hope you enjoy Seajon a tenth as much as we enjoyed making it.

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Film & Animation

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• psychedelic
• film
• from
• the
• midwest

[AndyBradley]

that was cool, did you shoot it on 16mm?

[petermillerdotinfo]

yep, the new ektachrome. It started off as a way to test how Lucas might have did his Hologram effects for Star Wars. You can see where the framerate discrepancy shows that we're shooting video with film.

[dopefiend2000]

good job.

[AndyBradley]

i have no idea how you did that:( i just shot my first roll of 16mm and got it back today from developing, came out well, i was surprised since i dont know anything about getting exposures right.

I checked out your site, and ended up watching all your work, i was amazed how great it all was. Well done.