Tesla's Suicide

Genre:	Surreal
Plot Synopsis:	A suicidal man decides to end it all by "riding the lightning" DIY style.
Starring:	Bernardo Sena
Director:	Max Sacker
Cinematographer	Max Sacker
Shooting Format:	16mm Fomapan R100, Kodak Ektachrome 64T Super 8mm
Release Information:	October 2007 at http://www.filmaka.com for "The Clinic" competition
Awards:	1st Place Entry Level "The Clinic Competition" Filmaka.com

Max's Geek Notes

Tesla's Suicide was my second attempt at using the notorious Krasnogorsk-3 16mm camera from the former USSR. Because the widest available lens for the K3 is the 17mm setting on the Zenit zoom lens, (except for fisheye variations like the 8mm Peleng or Kinor 16CX-2M modifications) I could only shoot close ups with the Krasnogorsk. I used a Canon 814 XLS super 8 camera for wider shots, and this is why there are differences in grain and picture quality.

Tesla's Suicide was also the first film that I partially processed by hand, using a Morse G-3 processing tank from the 1950s. The Fomapan R-100 16mm film stock proved extremely difficult to process in this tank, but the results were beautiful. The Ektachrome Super 8 film had to be processed at a professional lab, because colour reversal film requires a greater degree of temperature control than that which can be maintained using common household objects in your kitchen sink.

TESLA'S SUICIDE (2007)