Photographic Garden ONLINE LECTURE #6

The Photographic Garden is a series of lectures & research workshops, filmic try-outs and presentations hosted by Filmwerkplaats, Rotterdam. The goal of the project is to explore questions of environmental consciousness around analog (or photochemistry) filmmaking, and what new artistic potential can be released from this approach.

ONLINE LECTURE #6

13 November 2021 Saturday 16:00-18:00 (Dutch time) 15.00-17.00 (London time) 10.00-12.00 (New York time)

Regenerating Outdated Film Materials – Lecturer: Adrian Cousins

This lecture will be hosted on Zoom, and has FREE access, you only need to register in advance by buying a FREE ticket. After registration, you will be given an access code to log in as a listener (mute). Questions can be asked via the chat function.

Lecture link:

https://zoom.us/j/97284676240?pwd=RGFKVWZGVkg5N3JPMU5ONGZjM0hJQT09

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In his lecture Adrian Cousins will show his hands-on processes and try-outs to revive expired and obsolete film stocks, like his latest research on Kodachrome processing with colour couplers.

13 November 2021 Saturday 16:00-18:00 (Dutch time) 15.00-17.00 (London time) 10.00-12.00 (New York time)

Regenerating Outdated Film Materials – Lecturer: Adrian Cousins

Almost every mainstream film production ends-up with raw film material waste. Mostly in the form of short-ends (film left over from a shoot, short-ends from a roll too short for a next scene), sometimes full rolls of raw film stock that ends up in a fridge (or a shelf), to be kept and/or forgotten for years. Just becoming waste at some point, as being expired or outdated, too unreliable to shoot with, but hard to throw away by its owner knowing its original (economical) value. Many such rolls of film have found their way to our film lab. In a variety of types and sensitivities. Expired or outdated (raw/unexposed) film materials, we should not see this as waste but an artistic practice challenge!

Adrian Cousins, aka the custom chemistry anorak, is based in London. He mainly works with expired and obsolete film that he develops by hand at home in custom-made, often organic material based, chemistry. His Super8 and 16mm films are an account of his life and the small world around him. Suffering from a chronic illness that brings him good days and bad days, the footage and processes he uses reflect his well-being at that particular point in his life. From Adrian: I work in the spirit of Mekas’ statement “I make home movies – therefore I live. I live – therefore I make home movies.”