Here´s a film page, containing lots of short weird things, and a few things I have done at work. I have ordered it a bit like a blog, in reverse order, latest things are added here, at the top, old stuff is at the bottom. I have put off making a dedicated film page for many years due to the horrible compressing I’ve had to do to put things on YouTube for example. Now I’m working on getting everything up on Vimeo, and linking from here! Sit back and enjoy the strange!
2009
HAIRCUT
Haircut from Mark Francombe on Vimeo.
I removed my dreads – I had a haircut – heres a film
MAKING PEOPLE
Lo Fi Film
The film was shot in complete darkness, in 2 takes, using an old Panasonic Video Camera, with infra red night vision. Part 1 was speeded up part 2 was slowed down.
The material is glow in the dark Fimo, and the objects in Part 1 were hardened in the oven after the film was made.
They will be available in a later artwork.
Music is called 01-090102_2156.wav which just happens to be the name my computer gave it, a tad unimaginative if you ask me, but there you go. Using a baritone guitar, an edp and repeater for looping, the edp is being pitch shifted by a Roland EF303 which is at the same time sending CC´s to the repeater to mute tracks randomly. The distortion is from a Alesis Bitrman and the Voices from a Roland GR30
2008
ANGST
Lo Fi Film
Sometimes I am just driven to make a film, like right now… no delay… no time to find a camera, or charger, or anything really. At those times, films like this get made.
Angst from Mark Francombe on Vimeo.
SNOW
HD Film
Here´s a film. Shot in Oslo during the winter of 2008. Music is a pretty little tune i just found on my hard-drive, can’t remember when I made it however.
Its called “Pretty Little Tune”
SNOW from Mark Francombe on Vimeo.
SOGNSVANN
HD Film
This is a film I made at Sognsvann in Oslo. The music comes from “Fish!” on Synesthetic Recordings and the track is called “Goldfish”.
I have been interested in Timelapse filming since seeing Koyanisquatsi in the 80′s, and I have used the technique many times since then, both in my art films and for work.
See the companion film to this film, COLD. Same location, shooting style, totally different time of year.
It was shot on a Panasonic AG-HVX200, which I love. I feel I have only just scratched the surface of what I can do with this camera. Slow motion and timelapse are a doddle, and the colour settings are scary. Wish it had a better on-board mic, but…
SOGNSVANN from Mark Francombe on Vimeo.
THE BEAST
Lo fi Film
Film made on my phone, while on holiday in Ebeltoft, Denmark. It depicts the savage and frightening beast that roamed the area at night.
Really… the film is inspired by the recording I made on my H4 recorder one night in Denmark… I heard a rustling and a growl, and ran like hell!!! The recording is elsewhere on this website.
The Beast from Mark Francombe on Vimeo.
DANISH CLOUDS
Lo fi Film
Film made on my phone in Denmark 2008. A series of photos of the sky were taken and faded together in VideoDJ. Music was made on location using an instrument made from glasses filled with water.
Danish Clouds Film from Mark Francombe on Vimeo.
NIKS PIKS
Lo fi Film
This film is comprised of photos taken on my phone, by Nikolas, my son. I have edited them together and added the music.
NIKS PIKS – lo fi Film from Mark Francombe on Vimeo.
2007
COLD
HD Film
This film was shot over a few weeks in the winter of 2007/8. It was filmed at Sognsvann in Oslo, Norway.
Music is “And” from Ear Nose and Throat
Synesthetic /Synch Non Synch 2005
copyright markfrancombe
COLD from Mark Francombe on Vimeo.
FINDING KAROLINA
Lo fi film
Shot using my Zany Eriks son fone. Music is called 20th of Jan 2008 because that’s when i recorded it!
Finding Karolina from Mark Francombe on Vimeo.
LIVING THE BRAND – trailer
Corporate Film
This film was made with Nicholas Ind, author of “Living the Brand”. It has just been taken up by Video Arts in the UK and will be distributed by them complete with facilitation package, for
Living the Brand (trailer) from Mark Francombe on Vimeo.
R eeee
Lo fi Film
R eeeee from Mark Francombe on Vimeo.
What the words mean?
Lo fi Film
What the words mean from Mark Francombe on Vimeo.
2005
Telenor, The Visionary – Intro Sequences
Corporate Sci Fi E-learning
Visionary was a “Vision and Values” E-Learning concept written by Hilde, and realised by me and my chums at Transform, for Norwegian Telecom company Telenor. The premise was that long into the future, there are no more problems and everything is successful. And Telenor are very succesful. The reason, well back in 2005 they realised that following the companies Vision lead to success! So they made a program called “The Visionary” to tackle this. But then some things seem to be going wrong, and the “Value Guardians are sent back to 2005 to see what the problem was… and fix it… but… there was no REAL problems, but there was SABOTAGE!
Four exiting Interactive episodes, here are the Intro films to each one. Made completely by me, a greenscreen room, 3D I made in a game engine, and after effects.
Oh Music by me too!
1991
I HOPE – Cranes
Pop Promo
As well as being a member of the band, I directed this video in, Hmmm. about 1991… 16mm, and is my favorite from my Cranes videos. The final Animation is pictures from the alchemist Robert Flood.
Metal ball built by me, mysterious floor design, by James and me. Explosion by Jim Shaw, thanks Jim.
I Hope – Espero EP Promo from Mark Francombe on Vimeo.
1989
DOLE FILM
Super 8 Film
I originally shot this sometime between 1987 and 1989. Dole film depicts the somewhat grim but productive life of a lonely artist on the great British institution that is “The Dole”.
In its day it was accompanied by various tape-loops playing backwards and at the wrong speed on multiple reel to reel tape machines. These loops were lost eons ago, so I searched my recent recordings and found one that simply had the correct length. Its called “day 2 track 1 part 1″ and it was recorded live, with Faustine Ferrar singing, also live, in Paris while I was in Oslo. The wonders of the internet!
DOLE FILM from Mark Francombe on Vimeo.
