The Clown

Second in a series of paper films made from strips of color Xerography. In these films, the filmmaker is concerned with the film as an object or motion picture "soft sculpture" constructed of 16mm-sized strips. The paper (or emulsion) could be a kind of skin complete with hair and pores, half-tone dots, paper fiber - through which the world is viewed.

A film poem shot in San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Huntsville, Alabama and New York City in which missiles, bricks, huts, humanoid-types and people emerge from civilization's whimsical debris. The Apocalypse - now and after. The bomb is in YOU.

Fauve is a paper film made by a unique paper process which I invented and have employed here as a monochromatic study of rhythm and mood and the physics of light waves leaving a source - one sees the red, or longest waves, first, the blue, or shortest waves, last, and in my film, one's left in the UV light world of peripheral vision. The original score by Peter Wetzler adds to the textural, tactile, visual experience of Fauve.

A film by Donna Cameron