Recipes for Rainbows

April 13, 2022 7:55 AM

“I have soaked my film in many different substances including soap, dishwasher detergent, lemon, vinegar, Gatorade, curry, and cough medicine.” Film soup is an experimental analog photography technique where you soak a roll of film in different liquids to add fun, crazy colors and effects.
posted by oulipian (4 comments total)

I wonder if this is how they got the effects in Vera Chytilová's Daisies.

...At least some of them, bc I think most of the effects come from changing the film stock or overlaying tints or changing the exposure times...
posted by subdee at 11:11 AM on April 13, 2022

Very neat stuff, nice post. I keep meaning to experiment with this but I've got so many half-finished film projects that I don't need a new one. I do use a lot of ancient expired film that gives pretty random results.
posted by octothorpe at 12:12 PM on April 13, 2022

Previously
posted by Ideefixe at 3:04 PM on April 13, 2022

Very cool! Those are some very evocative effects.
posted by mixedmetaphors at 7:21 AM on April 14, 2022