This workshop uses the 16mm film strip as a canvas. Participants can explore the following techniques:

• Placing (in)organic material directly onto the filmstrip to create moving image collages

• Hand painting, scratching and / or drawing onto it

• Combining multiple techniques to take the image to the edge of failure

In any case anyone can very quickly make highly personal and experimental films by hand. The workshop essentially reveals how to make the passing of time visible at 18 or 24 frames per second without camera technology. At all stages of the workshop participants can see their works as loops in progress.

The workshop also touches on the production of experimental optical sound by hand (images across the soundtrack area are reproduced by the projector as sounds). Instant musique concrete can be created.

This workshop uses clear and black (opaque) 16mm film leader as a potential canvas, enabling participants to make highly personal and experimental films by hand. Participants can scratch, drew, paint, collage, and salivate onto filmstrips using pens, inks, transfers, brushes, stampers,sandpaper - anything which can leave a mark can be used! This is a powerful, intuitive, fascinating and fulfilling of making experimental films with the minimum of means, and will be exploring the potential for the production of experimental soundtracks on the way!

All footage generated on this workshop will be digitised and made available to participants as a downloadable file.

Please see https://vimeo.com/fromefilmfarm for a recent example of outcomes from such workshops.