Laikonik Express: the movie... not quite
I decided to make a short film to publicize the book before the launch. I just put a load of objects that might or might not feature in the book together - occupying the dining room table for about a week while I fooled around and made experimental sweeps over them with the camera. I'm not sure what made me settle on the final version, but it was probably mainly to do with realising that all the versions were just as good as one another. Who has all this junk just hanging around to stick into a film? Well, I do, obviously. A lot of it resides in one of those glass-fronted cabinets that would otherwise just be full of cups and saucers and glasses that I never use, really. I take the piss out of myself a bit with regard to this in Laikonik Express (see the Laikonik Express: cultural baggage page), but it is sort of true to say that a lot of Polish homes often have yards of glass-fronted cabinets, filled with relatively useless stuff, in them - older people's homes, mainly. The glass-fronted cabinet is also home to a fairly fundamental thing that happened during my childhood, which I can't really go into now, as it may well upset certain people, but I will, one day.
The real work on the film was done in post-production (as they call it) by my brother, who gave up hours of his time to fool about with effects, and very successfully. It gave it a totally different feel. Cheers, Frank.
I wrote the music for it. It's actually a linking passage from my song My War Gone By, which I performed in the Trans-Siberian March Band. I changed it to 3/4 to adapt it. It's meant to sound slightly creepy. The recording is from my robot music machine, the Notation Composer program. I may do a properly recorded version of it at some point, but quite like the synthy feel of it as it is.
It's too big to load here, apparently, but you can see the film here on YouTube, and there is another version here, which has additional cinema audience footage from Mel Brooks' ©1968 film The Producers, and from Allen Coulter's ©2006 film Hollywoodland, to which I don't hold the copyright.
The real work on the film was done in post-production (as they call it) by my brother, who gave up hours of his time to fool about with effects, and very successfully. It gave it a totally different feel. Cheers, Frank.
I wrote the music for it. It's actually a linking passage from my song My War Gone By, which I performed in the Trans-Siberian March Band. I changed it to 3/4 to adapt it. It's meant to sound slightly creepy. The recording is from my robot music machine, the Notation Composer program. I may do a properly recorded version of it at some point, but quite like the synthy feel of it as it is.
It's too big to load here, apparently, but you can see the film here on YouTube, and there is another version here, which has additional cinema audience footage from Mel Brooks' ©1968 film The Producers, and from Allen Coulter's ©2006 film Hollywoodland, to which I don't hold the copyright.