Grain: Analog Renaissance

[todders]

Found a fantastic film on Amazon Prime video which is free to watch if you subscribe to their service.

Grain is a documentary by Alex Contell and Tommaso Sacconi that explores the stories of those committed to using film in modern day photography

Well worth 73 mins of your time enjoy

 

[srichards]

It is also on YouTube

View: https://youtu.be/8d1A_2XPTyA?si=a1VKNCEgXJi5uS-2

 

[FishyFish]

I watched it a few weeks ago. Agree, it's an enjoyable documentary.

 

[ped]

Thanks. I watched it the other day and quite enjoyed it. Maybe it's just me but I find these amateur documentaries frustrating too because of the lack of an overall narrative and seemingly random flow, and lots of repetition. The music was frequently too loud over the dialogue, too. But what am I complaining about, it was free and I enjoyed it. Well, except from the broadly 'street' photography angle - I will never understand it, but the shots of guys clicking Leica cameras in the faces of people crossing the road did make me laugh. I mean, why would you? But again, it's a me problem.

 

[Dave Canon]

I skipped on through it as it was so repetitive and boring. I also disagreed with much of what they were saying. I had over 20 years of film and darkroom and would never want to go back.

Dave

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

I skipped on through it as it was so repetitive and boring. I also disagreed with much of what they were saying.

I agree entirely.

I used film from the mid 1960s onwards and that video provided no valid reason for returning to it, even though I can well believe that there are good reasons for some people to do so.

 

[ped]

I agree entirely.

I used film from the mid 1960s onwards and that video provided no valid reason for returning to it, even though I can well believe that there are good reasons for some people to do so.

I think film cameras are lovely to use but the developing/scanning/printing I guess can be a faff. I’ve never tried printing and have recently sorted a very easy and fast developing and batch scanning system which makes it all very easy. For those of us who didn't grow up with it, I think it’s a more hands on art form and the antithesis of the modern ‘perfect’ alternatives we all have in our pocket. They make a good point about the popularity of apps like Instagram - are people ashamed of their digital files, and want to make them more ‘real’?