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For the film, Chel White developed a customized set up that could achieve the level of detail he was looking for in the images. After removing the platen cover, four side lights were added along with a top light that would shine through a sheet of frosted glass, allowing for his subject peoples’
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describes the film as a “musical frolic which wittily builds on ghostly, distorted images crossing the plate glass of a copier.” Filmfest DC calls it, "true art in the age of mechanical reproduction; a rhythmic celebration of a photocopier’s cinematic potential." The
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to generate sequential pictures of hands, faces, and other body parts. It achieves a ghostly, dream-like aesthetic with elements of the sensual and the absurd. Completed in 1991, it is widely considered the first noteworthy animated film to use this technique. (See
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