Mechanical Ballet

The original material that forms the basis for Mechanical Ballet is an anonymous short reel of film of what appears to be car crash tests carried out in a deadpan and somewhat cumbersome manner Reworked into a twoscreen film and divorced from their original context they take on both a sinister and humorous quality Mechanical Ballet was born out of an interest in found footage film in its relation to collage and assemblage and the possibilities offered by the London FilmMakers Coop workshop in terms of manipulation of the filmstrip and the film frame projection duration and the film printing process