March 9, 1994

As part of the experimental film class I was taking, we had to do a project and were given an option- write a long research paper or make a short film using an experimental process or approach as seen during the semester. Pretty much everyone chose to do a film. Not having access to cameras, lights, editing equipment (or the know-how to use them), I chose to do a hand drawn animated film. And when I say hand drawn, I mean drawing images directly on the film stock. Another art student taking the class sold me a reel of 16 mm clear film leader, which had a coating on one side that ink would stick to.