ALTERNATE TAKE
Alternate Take / Jasper Johns Making Prints
by Katy Martin, 1979 - 2024
4K digital transfer from the Super-8mm film original
30 minutes, sound
This film is created from newly restored footage of Jasper Johns, collaborating with Simca Print Artists, that I shot years ago for my film, Hanafuda / Jasper Johns (1981).
In a voiceover narrative, I locate myself - then and now - within what for me was a formative experience. I also talk about Jasper's process and the prints they are making, focusing in on what I notice now that I simply couldn’t see at the time.
TECHNICAL NOTE ON THE RESTORATION. Most of the footage you see in this film was unusable at the time, due to technical problems I couldn’t correct for in film. Now, in digital, that’s become rather easy. So the 4K transfer from the Super-8 film original made it possible to bring this material to light.