A short experimental film created with Wonder Club participants through direct interventions on 16mm film found footage. Working with fragments of existing images, participants explored how meaning and narrative emerge through montage, repetition, and transformation, by intervening on the film through scratching, drawing, painting, and hand re-editing. Inspired loosely by the story of Frankenstein, the film imagines a kind of cinematic monster assembled from disconnected image fragments. Through cutting, layering, and manipulating the film surface itself, participants stitched together and reworked existing scenes into new sequences in order to generate a new narrative.
02mn36sec
16mm digitised to HD video, colour, sound
Conception and editing: Chahine Fellahi
Supported by: Louise Conway & Zoe Montgomery
Digitised by: South East Screen Archive
In collaboration with Wonder Club participants: Evie, Peggy, Lenny, Sulayman, Sylvie, Willow, Alex, Francesca, Ezra, Zayd
This work was created as part of Wonder Club, a creative programme of workshops for young people at Hove Museum of Creativity led by artist Chahine Fellahi, exploring early film through experimental approaches to photography, film, and image-making. The programme was part of Days of Wonder, a three-year programme exploring film and media heritage in Brighton, curated and produced by videoclub and Corridor Projects in partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums and Screen Archive South East.
