Wetland Impulse
2024, 16mm, 2:00


Single frame exposures were taken while walking through wetlands surrounding my home, alternating between image and no image at a rate of two frames each on black and white reversal film. In the unexposed black frames, I made quick observational etchings from the preceding images directly into the emulsion. Projected at 24 frames-per-second, the photographic images and my subsequent renderings appear superimposed rather than sequential, unifying the indexical and interpretive.

“A black-and-white reverie of the tactile and the analog--appears at once slow and fast, methodical and keen.” - Kat Sachs, Cine-File

Camera, animation, edit: Jimmy Schaus

Screenings:
Cosmic Sparks, Moviate Underground Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA, 2026
Adriatikino, Fermo, Italy, 2026
Sunspots: New Visions of the Avant-Garde, Florida Film Festival, Orlando, FL, 2026
Films (on film) by Jimmy Schaus, UCF Student Cinematheque, Orlando, FL, 2026
Spectra Celluloidae, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL, 2025
Direct Experimental Cinema, Celluloidra Revolverrel, Esztergom, Hungary, 2025
Fugue State - Phase One, New York City, NY, 2025
Obskura Festival, Rennes, France, 2025
Situations of Persistence, Experimental Film Festival Process, Riga, Latvia, 2025
INTERmission v. 3.0, ArtCube, Orlando, FL, 2025
Screen Door, Tampa, FL, 2024
Chicago Film Society, Chicago, IL, 2024