Filmwerkplaats 2-day workshop handmade emulsion

This is a 2-day workshop
15-16 March 11.00-17.00
Location Filmwerkplaats @WORM

The art of creating a light sensitive emulsion, in the tradition of the pioneers, by mixing a salt (potassium bromide) with silver (nitrate) and coat this emulsion on a clear 16mm film stip to generate an image through an exposure in a 16mm camera.
And creating a positive of a camera negative through contact printing.

The process of making your own silver-gelatin film emulsion is one that offers the filmmaker an unprecedented degree of creative intervention and expressiveness that simply cannot be accomplished with commercial film stocks. Although not a replacement for commercially produced film stocks, hand crafting and coating silver gelatine emulsions can lead to new and creative ways of forming cinematic images.
The starting point is home brewing a photosensitive emulsion that covers the 16mm film strips. A black-and-white emulsion is easily made with some silver nitrate, potassium bromide, gelatin and water. It’s actually similar to making mayonnaise. The biggest challenge is to evenly coat the emulsion on the thin strip of clear 16mm film and make it in a way that is possible to run it through a printer or a film camera.