FILM
Jordan Baseman
Rough Machine
2010
Duration: 3'26"
Super-Whip is colourful and bright: a frenetically spinning/stuttering/stopping depiction of the Super-Waltzer ride on Brighton Pier. Presented to us in a split-screen frenzy, Super-Whip is frantic and relentlessly joyful because of its hallucinatory nature. The driving soundtrack of original music propels the visuals ever faster.
Credits
Recorded and Made by Jordan Baseman
Music Jordan Baseman
Thanks Carolyn Thompson, Robin Klassnik, Len Thornton, Wimbledon College of Art, Animate Projects, Matt’s Gallery London, Brighton Pier, The Butthole Surfers, Soho Film Lab, Fuji Film (Poland Street)
Hand-Processing Support Nick Manser
Technical information
Shot on 16mm using stop-frame animation techniques. The recorded material was hand-processed (using buckets) and then professionally digitised. As the surface of the emulsion on the negative was intentionally physically punctured, torn and damaged through this most basic of developing processes, the resulting film is flecked with scratches and streaked with black scars: holes where images used to be.