Nerve Tonic (1995)

This film was a test of an idea for bipack shooting I used some outtakes from Trigger Happy and had a positive and negative highcontrast print made I had access to an Oxberry animation camera which had the ability to shoot bipack which is to say two strands of film could be loaded into the camera gate at the same time sandwiched together By shooting through the blackandwhite high contrast film I could use it as a sort of filter or contact print This lets one fill in all the white or clear areas of the film with whatever artwork was under the camera By shooting the same raw film through the negative and then winding it back and reshooting it through the positive I could replace both the black and the white of the film with whatever was on the stand It was done very quickly in a spontaneous exploratory way The resulting film test one hundred feet of 16mm film had the original Trigger Happy outtakes now colored very vividly