Uploaded October 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I was offered a subscription to a cool set of video-effects and filters. The app is called "Prequel" and is programmed by a team at Aiarlabs dot com in NYC.
Lately, whenever I shot some images, I always ran it through Prequel App, just for fun. As I started to have several short clips and combined them, it reminded me of "Chelovek s kinoapparatom" (1929) by Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov. (edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova), which is an experimental silent documentary film with no story and no actors. Another cool reference might be the B-roll footage in the BBC’s Adam Curtis-style of documentary making, of which I'm a big fan.
Since I'm someone who likes to make images "on the go" (aka fieldrecording), I have a series of fun but unrelated shortclips, shot with different kinds of travelcams over the years. Without the prequel effects, it would have been more difficult to stitch all these images together, but with all the effects applied, everything sort of bathes in a similar nostalgic glow and a topped off grained, scratched and dusted picture quality.
This weird shortfilm is only meant to entertain. In the most disorganized manner possible, it will take you from the Baltic Sea to the French Alps, from the Nazare Canyon to the Berlin Wall, from the Waterloo Fields to Monet's garden, from a BBC television set to the music studio, from CERN underground to a pink flamingo staring you right in the face.
I was offered a subscription to a cool set of video-effects and filters. The app is called "Prequel" and is programmed by a team at Aiarlabs dot com in NYC.
Lately, whenever I shot some images, I always ran it through Prequel App, just for fun. As I started to have several short clips and combined them, it reminded me of "Chelovek s kinoapparatom" (1929) by Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov. (edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova), which is an experimental silent documentary film with no story and no actors. Another cool reference might be the B-roll footage in the BBC’s Adam Curtis-style of documentary making, of which I'm a big fan.
Since I'm someone who likes to make images "on the go" (aka fieldrecording), I have a series of fun but unrelated shortclips, shot with different kinds of travelcams over the years. Without the prequel effects, it would have been more difficult to stitch all these images together, but with all the effects applied, everything sort of bathes in a similar nostalgic glow and a topped off grained, scratched and dusted picture quality.
This weird shortfilm is only meant to entertain. In the most disorganized manner possible, it will take you from the Baltic Sea to the French Alps, from the Nazare Canyon to the Berlin Wall, from the Waterloo Fields to Monet's garden, from a BBC television set to the music studio, from CERN underground to a pink flamingo staring you right in the face.
