FILM
Jordan Baseman
Rough Machine
2010
Duration: 1'55"
Galaxy is a somber, back and white film that portrays the stark architecture of Brighton’s Horror Hotel and the end of the pier Galaxy ride. Washed out, barely-there images flicker in silhouette. In a landscape that is normally teeming with people – this ride, this place, is empty. Summer is over.
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.