Filmwerkplaats 2-day workshop HIJACKING PHOTOCHEMISTRY FILM & ITS PROJECTOR DEVICES

Date: Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 July
Time: 11.00-17.00 (ish)
Location: Filmwerkplaats
Costs: 125,-

By hijacking, reusing and recycling, we find freedom to create with simple tools.

This is a 2-day 16mm film workshop, mainly messing up colour and b&w print film with chemistry. Rough and dirty. We will work in both safelight as daylight. Techniques as Chemigrams & Projocopter will be explored.

This workshop is guided by our spectral summer residency guests Erwan Tracol and Laurent Reyes.
Erwan Tracol is a member of Mire (Nantes, FR) whose photographic and filmic work explores the many possibilities of film. Laurent Reyes (Marseille, FR) photography and films are born from his need to embrace life in all its ambivalence. Against the comfort of certainties, these practices push him to rub shoulders with the rough edges of existence to keep the quest for ecstasy alive.

Chemigrams, a term coined by visual artist Pierre Cordier, allow us to create images without a camera, using the chemistry of photography (photosensitive surface, developer and fixer) and the tools of painting (wax, varnish, tape and other materials). Writing with chemistry, literally. The limits being our imagination.

Initially, we’ll discover the basics of this experimental technique and its application to 16mm film (color and/or black & white print stock, out-of-date or not), then try to explode its limits and combine it with the possibilities of the projo-printer.

Projocopter
A projector can also print, and we will make it duplicate in loops, overprint in sequences. The pace given manually to the movement of light during exposure can become a choreographic way to print, with fades or blinks.