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Learn the ins-and-outs of Regular/Double 8mm filmmaking with visiting artist Sandy McLennan!Sunday, June 25th | 10am – 6pm (1 hr lunch break (lunch not included) | Artspace Boardroom, 4th floor, 100 Arthur Street
*Note: This in-person workshop is limited to 8 participants. While masks are no longer required to be worn in indoor public spaces in Manitoba, individuals are recommended to wear a mask in our Production Centre.
Why shoot film?
A big reason to shoot film is to have the experience of the acts and processes. Unlike digital where devices are camera/processor/projector in one, analogue shooting is separate and distinct from processing, which is separate and distinct from viewing and each involves concentrated labour. The deliberate hands-on interaction with old and usually fussy equipment, where nothing is electronic or automatic, is unique and memorable. It is an experience in itself. It involves anticipation and anxiety about how the images will turn out. What you do may not be what you get. Projecting one’s film offers a nerve-wracking/thrilling and simultaneously solo/social event. Then there is the emotional response to the way it finally looks on the screen.
With Sandy McLeannan’s guidance (and no in-depth prerequisite requirements), participants will record images on short clips of film stock and together we’ll process them in the darkroom then splice the clips together and project them on the wall. In the case of Double 8 we’ll also screen Regular 8 format (slitting the camera-original 16mm-wide film down the centre to create two lengths of 8mm-wide film that is spliced end to end).
Participants will take home some of the film they made, a video copy of our work
shot off the wall, and a detailed handout about the processes, equipment and materials.
Instructor Description:
Sandy McLennan loves wandering just outside his darkroom door (the home or portable one) with cameras and sound recorders. Processing Double 8/super 8/16mm motion pictures and pinhole-camera paper negatives reveals memory of personal and state-of-the-world emotions. He improvises with audio from shoot-location field recordings and sound associated with film creation. He leads workshops giving the experience of slow time via analogue technology. He has exhibited motion pictures, photography, installation/performance and sound and has received grants from Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council. In 2022 Sandy received an honourable mention from the jury at Dresdner Schmalfilmtage (which came with a prize of 1000 feet of Orwo 16mm film!) for “Moving, parts one and two” which he screened a 16mm print of while there. While in Winnipeg he will be in the middle of a Canada Council-supported filmmaking journey — riding South-North passenger trains off the main East-West line in Canada, slow-pondering the Canada education and nation-al family values he got as a young boy in the 60’s and 70s to see how that learning looks and feels these days, some fifty-plus years later. Solo travel and the state of public transportation will also be on the docket for consideration.
Sandy is fortunate to have grown up analogue (projecting Regular 8mm home movies, shooting slides on a big-brother gifted 35mm camera, running a darkroom and VHS editing station as an audio-visual technician in public schools) then drifting with the tide to digital, now using the “right tool at the right time” with all available, including the benefit of a darkroom at home and taking up hand-processing motion picture film. Double 8mm is from before, and yet it still exists. As with anything that’s uniquely valuable, be part of it while you can.
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Winnipeg Film Group, 304 - 100 Arthur Street,Winnipeg,MB,Canada
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