About Andrew JaremkoI'm the author of all - well, almost all - of what you see on this site. I am about as old as the transistor (born in 1949) and have been watching movies for about half of their existence. I started playing with movie cameras and projectors about 1964. My friends and I made a live action 16mm movie titled ...Voodoo" that was one of Movie Maker Magazine's Ten Best Amateur Films of 1975. I took a holiday trip to London, England, to attend the awards ceremony. Jimmy Stewart was appearing in a stage production of "Harvey" in London that year, and presented the awards. That's definitely one of the high points of my life.
I haven't posted ...Voodoo" here because it contains adult content. All that time, I was shooting movies in 8mm and Super-8 as well, and building digital electronic systems to let me synchronize the movie projector with a tape recorder for sync sound. Here's an 8mm example - "Wheels" - combining footage I shot at our local roller rink with rock and roll: an actual music video! The more elaborate Super-8 production "It's My Own Invention" from 1976 shows a little bit of behind the scenes of the technology required for sync sound with home movies. David Winning has gone on to a career in directing film and television. Skipping ahead 24 years (I'll fill in the gap with more examples as time goes on), computers and digital graphics happened and I was using them. In 2000 my abstract animation "Lines Radial - Variations on Themes by McLaren" was part of Quickdraw Animation Society's "Frozen Moments" program of animation. I was a member of the discussion panel for that program at venues including the Ottawa International Animation Festival. The panel addressed the impact of the "digital thing" on independent animators. Since then, I've been making more animations and writing Windows and Mac software to support my animation habit. The totally self-serving 11 minute video below shows some of what I've been doing. Warning! At the end of the video I sing my "Moviemaker's Lament" acapella while performing movies live! Not for the faint of heart! (Or the musically sophisticated, either.)
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