OK, once you've mastered the accompanying Adobe Premier Pro software - you even get a post-production house-style shuttle wheel to whiz through all those frames - burning 50GB to single-sided Blu-ray disks should be a breeze.
Shot in the form of a timelapse, Deconstucted Piano captures one frame of burning wood every six seconds, which creates the stunning impression of the piano almost melting into cinders in front of your eyes.
Norman Rockwell is also well represented, his sympathetic eye framing the burning issues of his time: war, in the case of "The Fighting Gillises" (1944), and racial discrimination, in "Study for 'The Problem We All Live With' " (1964).
The rhythm of the picture switches between long silent sequences, in which Brooks falls into a state of murderous abstraction, and the elegant notation of physical movement — a hand entering a frame, photographs burning in a kiln.
His comic wit (check out the camera's framing of Sixx burning his old driver's license) and mastery of controlled chaos makes him a good choice but it also makes the film somewhat lopsided.
A few years ago Taliban soldiers closed and gutted the complex, stealing bricks and burning door frames for firewood.
"Burning schools, burning markets.
The smoke of burning factories framed this rumbling multitude.
But as the new movie works its strange black magic, the line between fact and film, documentary and drama, starts to melt like a frozen frame of 35mm celluloid, burning its way into Gilderoy's tortured brain.
He is a gothic artist, quite literally when he frames a film of a burning orchid inside a pointed stone gothic arch.
