At some point Cherry Dude worked on a music video shot all on 16mm, and I tagged along because fun. Having the chance to shoot anything on actual film is kind of a rare treat, we just don't have the luxury of using something so troublesome and uncertain these days. More and more lately, I've been longing for imperfection. I don't want clean, sharply focused, perfectly lit, high resolution images, I yearn for shitty grainy images that are easy to fuck up, in the moment, haphazardly ugly and cute at the same time.
I shot some stills at no one's request, and the results were kind of gross and great.
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| Olympus Mju ii | Kodak Gold 200 |
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| Bronica GS-1 100mm f3.5 | Portra 800 |
When we first scanned these, I was not super on board with the amount of motion blur and iffy focus. But as we forgot about them, then were reminded when the music video was released, I find these endearing. There should be nothing clean and perfect about punks rolling around in the dirt in an underpass, wrestling on rusty mattresses and jumping onto trains. The thought of these people inadvertently contracting tetanus while shooting a video was both horrifying but also inspiring. They simply didn't give a fuck, and that's something I feel like we all need to be reminded of every once in a while.Perfection is for work (capitalism), punk is for art.