Alchemical Virtual Series
SMPTE FOREST
16mm, 3 minutes, color, silent
iPhone video and SMPTE color bars were filmed on 16mm at 24fps. The digital overscan of the celluloid is played back at 0.24fps (1% of the original speed). The film is a sequence of 15-second shots in which the computer creates hundreds of frames sampling from three frames. It chooses how to build natural forms out of one of the standard test patterns of NTSC video created by The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
SCREENINGS
- A Night with Leonardo Pirondi and Zazie Ray-Trapido at Spectacle Theater; New York, USA 2023
THE PERFECT ROOM
S16mm, 2 minutes, b&w, silent
The rendering of an impeccably constructed computer-generated image displays a disarranged home. Filmed on 16mm and hand-processed, the image is formed through a process that allows imperfections such as hair, dust, and dirt.
SCREENINGS
- Selections of Light Matter at Kino Palais; Buenos Aires, Argentina 2023
- HEAVY LIGHT by San Diego Underground Arts; Los Angeles, USA 2023
- Beijing International Short Film Festival at the Goethe-Institut China; Beijing, China 2023.
- Beijing International Short Film Festival at the UCCA Edge Shanghai, China 2023.
- SOLO SCREENING: EARTH/GRAIN/PIXEL: Short Films by Leonardo Pirondi at Spectacle Theatre; Brooklyn, USA 2023.
- Selections of Light Matter at Cinemateca Nacional; Quito, Ecuador 2023
- Beijing International Short Film Festival; Beijing, China. 2022 (postponed)
- Light Matter: Potential Spaces; Alfred, USA 2022
- Antimatter [Media Art]; Victoria BC, Canada 2022
WHAT REMAINS
16mm, 1 minute, b&w, silent
A film that explores the intersection of a virtual and analog image. The film questions what remains through the hand-processed 16mm and 3D simulation.
SCREENINGS
- HEAVY LIGHT by San Diego Underground Arts; Los Angeles, USA 2023
- SOLO SCREENING: EARTH/GRAIN/PIXEL: Short Films by Leonardo Pirondi at Spectacle Theatre; Brooklyn, USA 2023.
- XPRMNTL anti-festival; London, UK 2023
- Light [ ] Film Nights: No Credit Necessary; Piru, USA 2022
- Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival; Lausanne, Switzerland 2022