Screenshots #5: The Endless Summer / November 2009
8 votesThe fifth issue of Screenshots consists of 40 pages of watercolor paintings based on the film The Endless Summer (1966) by Bruce Brown.
The film The Endless Summer follows two surfers on their quest for the perfect wave while sustaining a year-long Summer on a trip around the world. This zine re-imagines The Endless Summer as a constant state of suspension in space. In reducing the concept to its essence, there is no mainland, no travelling, no beach, no waves, no movement, only a pervasive warmth. The surfers are mere two-dimensional shapes in a field of color, depicted in suspended moments of waiting or wiping out. Nothing is in motion, everything is still.
Facts & Figures
Mission Statement: Screenshots is an homage to film in the form of a picture fanzine: A series of books of drawings (or paintings or mixed media works) based on images from films. The screenshots (often also called screen captures or screen grabs, i.e., still images from a paused film) that serve as the basis for the drawings are selected through a predetermined principle that varies from issue to issue. For example, for the first issue of the series, Conte de printemps (A Tale of Springtime, 1990) by Eric Rohmer (56 pages, 25 drawings in watercolor and pencil; February 2009), the starting point was that each image was to be a literal screenshot by having an actual television or computer screen in the frame. In interpreting films through the media of drawing and books, each appropriated series of screenshots turns into a subjective take on cinematic memory, a play with narrative forms and their inherent properties of drama and artifice. The narrative feature film is transformed into a fragmented series of still images in a book - a complex, collaborative production is processed through the intimate and personal act of drawing and self-publishing.
Founded: February 2009, by Manfred Naescher
Based in: Berlin, Germany
Editors / Designers: Manfred Naescher
Periodicity: Approximately bi-monthly
Language: English, but usually purely visual
Format: A5 (8.25 by 5.75 inches), staple-bound, 36 to 64 pages, full color
Circulation: 50 - 400
Price: SPECIAL OFFER 6 €
Web: manfrednaescher.com
Contact: manfred (at) manfrednaescher.com
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So excellent! Nice work!
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