German filmmaker and animator Lotte Reiniger made over 40 films in her career, predating Walt Disney’s animations by a decade.  She is famous for her Adventures of Prince Achmed, an alternate take on the story of Aladdin.  Her films are essentially grayscale animations on a solid-colored background.  Silhouetted shapes move whimsically across the screen and interact deftly with one another. […]

What I find enticing about Notes on Camp is the use of a variety of different overlapping sounds and sonic textures to create a unified whole.  The artist uses narration, ambient noise, quotations from the campers, songs, announcements over the loudspeaker, and other such “camp sounds” to weave a tapestry of the entire experience.  This technique makes the documentation more […]