INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES >>> sound & vision made using an IBM hole punch on 16mm film/tape loops/celluloid synthesiser vision to sound/vox >>> loops of the ‘obsolete’ and the handmade #ibm #tapeloops

I’ll be performing Spectres, Skin & Bone, a live AV essay, at exploding cinema at the Cinema Museum in London on 22nd Nov. Tickets- ticketlab.app/event/35670?...

Flying through a rainbow coming into St Lucia. A lovely end to a 24 hour journey

Phantasmalaise - video to audio sonifications from my Celluloid Synthesiser project, showing at the 14 hour technicolor drone at @allthingsfungi.bsky.social over the weekend, with a small tape release on Fr33zehead Records planned for early next year

My curtains have made a camera obscura of the flats opposite. It’s going to be sad to leave. Where shall I go? I just need to be near-ish an airport and fairly cheap. By the coast is a bonus.

I am thinking of doing a practice-based phd in art/film based on this Revenants series of work I have been doing for a few years now. Any advice/encouragement/discouragement appreciated!

Signed giclée prints now available on my website with 20% off for August( (but message me here for cheaper postage) www.sapphiregoss.com/shop

On Wednesday 20th August - John Doran and Sapphire Goss bring their live documentary performance Bricking It: Culture & Death in Industrial Liverpool to Liverpool, with live music by Ben Duvall of Ex-Easter Island Head. Contact below for address and details: [email protected]

Signed giclée prints now available on my website with 20% off for August( (but message me here for cheaper postage) www.sapphiregoss.com/shop

Very pleased to announce a new Live Documentary Performance with music by Benjamin D. Duvall [@eeih.bsky.social], expanded cinema by artist/filmmaker @sapphiregoss.bsky.social and yours truly on essayism. Full details in e-Flyer & 🧵but you need to speak to Ben ^^^ about tickets & secret location.

It's all gone a bit Heath Robinson in the shed. Working on the next video for my band @tirs.bsky.social - with thanks to @sapphiregoss.bsky.social for the inspiration (and I hope I've gone off on enough of a tangent).

Dark Aberrations: Solar Slips, A3 Giclée print on archival 300gsm photo rag, signed edition of 20+2 APs. Shot on holga+expired film. currently showing at Dover Road studios Folkestone as part of Salon 186 - also available to purchase. £125 unframed + pp with 25% off throughout August. DM for info.

it's groove time

My favourite too

A junk shop roll of found photos so old the text from the backing paper has etched in over the years. Kodacolor II was made from 1973 to the early 80s and the clothes/space-age garden furniture seem to say 70s. Transmissions from a lost world.

Scanning & splicing expired Kodachrome developed in coffee / caffenol- some strange colour splashes on this reel. Always nice when the air temperature matches the development temperature

Just had a really moving response to this film Attic Windows of the Infinite I made in 2022. If you want to watch it DM me (or it’s been pirated on a russian streaming site!)

Alright my Ducks! I'm on the same bill as Throwing effing Muses, Jane Weaver, Richard Dawson, GNOD, EEIH, Alison Cotton, Moonlandingz, Lovely Eggs, GALAXIE 500! and my man Mohamad Syfkhan! Krankenhaus Sea Power's ace fezzie... you know it makes sense! krankenhausfestival.com

Celluloid Synthesiser - sound on >>> Playing with video to audio sonification drones over the years and getting to an interesting place I think. I’m no musician by any means but enjoy building soundtracks. It’s interesting thinking more about editing as composing to a rhythm of light and dark.

Celluloid synthesiser - sonification from analogue video

The sonification of celluloid - sound on >>> Playing with video to audio synthesis drones over the years and getting to an interesting place I think. I’m no musician by any means but enjoy building soundtracks. It’s interesting thinking more about editing as composing to a rhythm of light and dark.

@jahduran.bsky.social & I had a great time in Porto doing our live documentary performance on heavy metal and modernism - more of this soon! Credits: Renato Cruz Santos/Batalha Centro de Cinema

Some clips from Revenants: Compound Horizons (2023) screening in London at Dream Sequence x Staffordshire Street and in Brazil at Strangloscope Festival. Both this and Optographic Animation have travelled a lot in the last two years, it’s been a real privilege. Time to make some more…

One foot in the material world, one in the ether. 16mm shot on Beaulieu R16 / Kodak Vision 3 50D. Developed & scanned by Kodak

Highlands on 16mm Beaulieu R16. Using fresh stock-Kodak vision 3 50D-and getting it machine processed looks so different to my usual expired film/home developer combos, almost like digital the grain is so fine. It’s a lot more expensive of course! Took an unglamorous 12.5hr coach to get these shots

Next up I’m part of this exhibition in NY at Millennium film Workshop, curated by Michèle Saint Michèle opening next Friday

Saw a post by dpa microphones about making a DIY hydrophone with a whisk and a condom so I had to try it

23/3/25 - nocturn

This is one of the most exciting images I've seen in ages. I'd like a whole movie shot in this manner, improvised onto expired film. A cross between Decasia and Jean Cocteau. Just a marvellous 30 seconds.

‘A Portrait of Jennie’ (1948) is such a strange beautiful flawed patchwork: fragments of time and materials and light and colour, I’ve never seen anything like it. I’m interested in recommendations of anything that comes close. Cracking soundtrack of Debussy mixed with Bernard Herman theremin too.

Clouds passing over moon, expired 16mm home developed

Diabolical Particles (full moon shot on 16mm Kodachrome expired in the 1970s, what looks like a registration error or could be a speed filter, developed in coffee/caffenol, accidentally solarised)

Planet gazing

Tape-splice landscapes on 16mm. Clawing a bit of time to work on my own stuff between illness and the innie job next week

What an amazing Premiere of “Opens and Closes: the Future of Edinburgh's Histories” by the one and only @allartmarkets.bsky.social and @sapphiregoss.bsky.social at the @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social. Buzzing w/ visual metaphors, the poetics of accountants, and topographies of pasts & futures!

Plenty to think about after the premiere of @allartmarkets.bsky.social + @sapphiregoss.bsky.social excellent film "Opens and Closes: The Future of Edinburgh's Histories" at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social (and anyone who uses Ministry's "N.W.O." as pre-screening music is OK by me 🤘)

Found this while avoiding writing an application - an ad for my favourite song of all time. Opus 1, Back Seat ‘38 Dodge. It’s B e w i t c h e n www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89Z...

Last week I went to Singapore to see Altered States in person at ArtScience Museum and do this very jetlagged interview www.instagram.com/reel/DFfSzR-zgdJ/?igsh=MWVnMzhqaDdvamk1Zg==

Thank you to the lovely @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social for sharing my latest Substack essay in their newsletter this week. It's all about the sky: its history, art influenced by it, and how we, as humans, often find hope, solace and inspiration when looking upwards. tinyurl.com/bdf6rv44

Second boat trip of the day and first view of ArtsScience Singapore where my work is showing. I was so excited I even took a rare selfie

I always like trying to find the islands wherever I am, even better if they’re former military/penal colonies, or in this case quarantine islands. St John’s/Lazarus/Kusu in Singapore

Phantasmalaise: A souped roll of 8mm film forming veins/roots/river terrains. Part of something new. I wish I knew how this had happened!

Really enjoyed seeing @sapphiregoss.bsky.social work at East Sussex Psychedelic Film Club tonight. I would share a photo, but it would be unfair on the other thousands of frames of film. Beautiful work.

A successful day of ECN2 colour developing yesterday- these are rough 8mm scans from a roll shot in Colorado of the mountain lakes and quivering aspens

Coming in hot to 2025 with a screening of my films after Eraserhead (!!!) at East Sussex Psychedelic Film Club in Lewes, which sold out super quickly. Can’t wait!

Such a nice way to end the year- being part of this thoughtfully curated exhibition at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore. It’s now been extended to end January and I’m hoping to get out there to see it!

This will be me if things get much worse (the making cameras from rubbish part rather than the peeping tom part) milanpecanikolic.substack.com/p/miroslav-t...

New Светочувствительные материалы, lit. 'Light-sensitive Materials' - these may have been shot already but only one way to find out!

There are times when there are nothing but tines