workshops.

Dry plates are pieces of glass plate that are coated with a gelatin emulsion that when exposed to light will capture an image. It was a revolutionary photographic process in the late 19th century, and gave photographers the opportunity to take photographs anywhere they wanted.

During this two day workshop with Armands Andže, participants will gain insights in basics of large format cameras, and principles of making light sensitive silver halide emulsions, and preparation of silver gelatine dry glass plates.

Day 1:

- Introduction in large format photography

- Introduction of principles of making light sensitive emulsions

- Preparation of glass for emulsion coating

- emulsion coating

Day 2:

- Exposure of the plates

- Development

The workshop language is English. Workshop fee is 100€. All materials are included. Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)

Filmverkstaden is delighted to present a workshop with Montreal-based filmmaker Charles-André Coderre.

During this workshop participants will work with colour reversal film and learn chemical deterioration techniques and direct work on film. We will film with mask, develop the film with bleach bypass. boil the film and use the mordançage technique. Those techniques will be tested by the participants and also presented through examples and film excerpts from Charles-André Coderres work.

Accompanied by a screening and live performance on Saturday evening.

The workshop language is English. Workshop fee is 100€. All materials are included. Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)

In this very special workshop with Jenni Haili you’ll learn how to enlarge from a positive film onto wet-plate collodion.

Wet-plate collodion was a mid to late 19th century process made famous by the likes of Julia Margaret Cameron and Gustave Le Gray. As the name of the process states the sensitized plate remains sensitive to light only as long as it is wet. This means that any on-location-photography will require the use of a portable darkroom rendering the field work very cumbersome. However, there is a workaround! Photographing on-site with a positive film and using a traditional darkroom enlarger, makes it possible to enlarge the images on wet-plate in a darkroom.

In this short two day workshop you will learn

- how to develop slide film
- how to prepare, expose, process and finish glass and aluminium plates for direct positive images (ambrotypes and ferrotypes)
- how to use an enlarger for exposing a wet-plate in the darkroom.

Pre-requirements: an exposed slide film

The course does not teach: how to expose on wet-plate with a large format camera

The workshop language is Swedish/Finnish/English. Workshop fee is 100€. All materials are included. Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)

Note!

Harmful gasses are released during the wet-plate process, so the course is not recommended for pregnant women or people otherwise sensitive to chemicals. It is recommended to bring your own gas mask with both gas and particle filters (e.g. Sundström SM-100 + ABEK1 + SR 510 P3).

Filmverkstaden welcomes you to a camera less photography workshop by Juliana Borinski.

You are invited to come and use your found footage or self produced images. Searching for inspiration? Any kind of objet of your interest, you can bring along. I invite you to work on different stages with paper processing in the black & white darkroom. I will show you how to explore photography within basic matter: the elements of the dark room. Maybe a printer + internet connection and some basic chemicals for development and paper. My practice spans in a variety of the possibilities of reproduction of images. Matter and the image process itself are tested within my artistic practice & I would like to bring you on a two day journey to learn to produce photograms and some experimentation skills within the dark room.

You can come with private images and also with images collected. Maybe there is a certain topic you are already exploring ?

Materials that you can bring with you: printable images (simple black and white office paper as negative or positive) + and or your phone and some extra small light source (iPad or negatives, or objects and less or some lightening source e.g. a torch).

Looking forward!

The workshop language is English. Workshop fee is 80€. All materials are included. Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)

Filmverkstaden is delighted to present this workshop by Jenni Haili in which you will learn analog colour film photography and printing. The film negative is the basis of every successful print. Therefore, film development and knowledge of film properties should not be underestimated. In this course you will learn how to photograph and develop a colour negative film and how to make colour prints of it in the darkroom. We focus especially on the standard processes C-41 (negative film) and RA-4 (chromogenic colour print) with the use of JOBO rotary processor. The course goes through the technique of working with colour, from the best negative exposure to managing colour balance and correct exposure on the print. Additive and subtractive colour theory will be introduced.

Harmful gasses are released during the colour processes, so the course is not recommended for pregnant women or people otherwise sensitive to chemicals. Even though exposure to the chemicals is kept to minimum, it is recommended to bring your own gas mask with both gas and particle filters (e.g. Sundström SM-100 + ABEK1 + SR 510 P3).

The workshop language is Swedish/Finnish/English. Workshop fee is 120€. All materials are included. Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)

Filmverkstaden is delighted to offer you a workshop with paula roush where you learn how to create an artist’s book, either through a digital workflow or with a hands-on approach using unique prints or a photocopier.

The workshop is for those already working on a photobook / artist’s book or intending to develop one. You will learn about small-scale models of photobook publishing [small press, art publishing, indie photobook publishing], and practice the integration of photographic and book art practices in your own book dummy.

In this intensive workshop you will learn the secrets of correct paper/printer combinations and the combination of hand-made and digital techniques that paula has perfected for photo book dummies and small editions through a decade of research.

The teaching pattern will happen through four online workshops on zoom – both group and 1:1 tutorials – as well as a two-day face-to-face workshop with presentation of dummies.

Ideally you will have your own laptop preferably with InDesign (+ Photoshop+ Bridge) or alternative open-source desktop publishing software such as Affinity installed. Basic InDesign skills are important if you plan to follow a digital workflow. Varied photobook templates and handouts will be shared to practice at one’s pace.

Alternatively, it is also possible to develop a book dummy bypassing InDesign or other software, with a hands-on approach, using unique prints or a photocopier. It all depends on the publishing concept.

The workshop costs 150 euros, including materials. Accommodation is available for 35 euros per night for those travelling from further away. Travelling to Maalahti from Vaasa can be organised through car-sharing.

How to sign up
Ten participants are selected to join this workshop through the open call. To apply, please email maria@filmverkstaden.fi including a short motivation letter in which you introduce yourself and briefly describe your interest in joining the workshop by May 6th 2023. Please use the subject Page Turner. We will inform all applicants about the selections by May 10th.

This workshop is generously supported by Svenska Kulturfonden.

Photo: Maria Santo Page Turner Lisbon photobook fair

Filmverkstaden is happy to present a two day workshop with artist and film wizard Riojim (Etienne Caire) from Grenoble, France.

In the workshop we will make copies from black and white film onto a colour print stock, using our contact printer. Then we will learn the ways to make different variations/generations in the copy by using flat print technique, double exposure, light and colour filters.

We will try to create polychromie, working with loops, that means 1 to 2 meters long pieces of film.

The workshop costs 80€ and all materials are included.

Filmverkstaden continues the Analogue Adventure with a workshop by Ojoboca.

In the early days of cinema projecting a film was an act of performance and as much a part of the experience as the images on the screen. Over time the act of projection was relegated to the darkness of the projection booth, but its potential persisted for filmmakers interested in finding other types of cinematic experiences. They moved the projector back into the space and began to play with the possibilities of live manipulation, creating events that expanded and exploded the constraints of the traditional cinema.

In this workshop we will explore analog techniques for exploring the possibilities of

the frame, the shutter and the screen. We’ll begin by looking at the projector not as a passive device for the reproduction of coupled images and sounds but as a playable instrument. We will explore ways of transforming the quality of the light through the use of an external shutter.

In the darkroom we will go over techniques for creating images that lend themselves to live performance. Using black and white print stock we’ll apply contact printing techniques to make loops of various lengths. We’ll make photograms by placing diverse materials directly on the filmstock or copy found or original footage.

Then we’ll examine methods for incorporating sound into live performance. We’ll look at how optical sound can be manipulated using external effect gear such as effects pedals and synthesizers. To further interact with the mechanical properties of the machine, we will build contact microphones to manipulate sound through touch.

Finally, the participants, individually or in groups, will use the material created in the workshop to produce and perform a short piece of expanded cinema with single or multiple projectors and live sound.

This is the fifth workshop in the residency program Analogue Adventure that is offered to Finnish and Finland-based artists who want to learn about and experiment with analogue film and photography. The program is generously supported by Taike, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, KulturÖsterbotten, Schaumans Stiftelse and the city of Vaasa.

The workshop language is English. Workshop fee is 80€. All materials are included. Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)

Filmverkstaden is happy to host a workshop with Dima Starusev, dedicated to how to make a colour version of B/W positives. Together we will dive into colour theory and experiment extensively with different ways of colouring B/W images, slides, prints and 16mm film.

1. Basic color theory.
2. Positive/negative. Panchromatic film. B/W reversal process.
3. Dye and chemical toning of positives. Tinting films. Partial toning for b/w prints.
4. Hand coloring.
5. Theory of three-color photography.
6. Color separation negative/positive. How to shoot. BW reversal process. Silver dye-bleach

Feel free to bring your own B/W images and film. Materials are also available at Filmverkstaden.

The workshop language is English.

Workshop fee is 80€.

All materials are included.

Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)

Filmverkstaden is honoured to continue the Analogue Adventure with a workshop with Gaëlle Rouard.

We’ll do a wild BW processing workshop, printing found footage (or other sources) with the flat print technic. We’ll do small length to make loops, then play with the projector as an instrument. We’ll use film print stock (in the red light) in a wild negative/positive process, to get some solarization orange colors and other strange effects as …how to get pos and neg result on the same loop, and even on a same frame.

We'll have some images to work with, but people can bring their own ones.

High contrast images are recommended.

This is the fourth workshop in the residency program Analogue Adventure that is offered to Finnish and Finland-based artists who want to learn about and experiment with analogue film and photography. The program is generously supported by Taike, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, KulturÖsterbotten, Schaumans Stiftelse and the city of Vaasa.

The workshop language is English.Workshop fee is 80€. All materials are included. Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)

Filmverkstaden is thrilled to start off the new year with a workshop by Melissa Dullius.

Color print film should be used to produce positive film copies of color negative films using machines called contact printers.
It has a very low speed, ISO 4, and its emulsion coat is color balanced for tungsten light, on a polyester base. This material is intended to be projected and not to be loaded into film cameras.
 
E6 chemistry is designed to process reversal motion picture films and/or slides in still photography. It can be found in different settings; in 3 baths, to be used for hand processing; and 6 or more baths, for professional labs.
 
We will be using color print film as our medium, and 3-bath E6 chemistry as our process, but not in the way they were originally designed to be used. In this workshop we will celebrate adaptations and experiments, applying techniques that derive from lack of means, special needs, curiosity, accidents and unexpected events or mistakes.
 
We will expose color print film by contact printing, using excerpts of reversal and positive 16 mm films as originals, or “negatives”, to create (de)generated copies. We will cross-process it, producing (de)generations in form of copies of copies, or variations of an original, and then project them as loops or very short films.
 
We’ll also shoot with color print film with 16 mm cameras, and without, in the darkroom, exposing film stripes in the manner of cameraless photograms.
 
We will start our workshop projecting examples made in the above-mentioned techniques and deciding if we want to try all of them or not, and whether we want to make individual mini-projects, to be projected as loops, or create one film as a collective piece.
 
Participants can bring along:
- their own originals, to be used as “negatives”: positive and/or reversal 16 mm films
- tiny objects, translucent or opaque and small light sources, to be used in the cameraless photograms

This is the third workshop in the residency program Analogue Adventure that is offered to Finnish and Finland-based artists who want to learn about and experiment with analogue film and photography. The program is generously supported by Taike, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, KulturÖsterbotten, Schaumans Stiftelse and the city of Vaasa.

The workshop language is English.
Workshop fee is 80€. All materials are included.
Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi
(binding registration)

Filmverkstaden is happy to bring to you this workshop in experimental 16mm filmtechniques by Lindsay McIntyre (CAN).

Monoflex
Sometimes called half-process or Create a hand-crafted film image with both negative and positive on the same strip. Monoflex is an experimental B+W darkroom process with which you can create a film that has specifically chosen image areas of positive and negative. What’s best is that you can make the selection of those areas in full daylight, which allows to you create some quite fantastically detailed images. In this workshop participants will work with a roll of black and white film and through this process they will gain an intimate understanding of how black and white chemistry works. No prior film experience is necessary.

Mordençage
Originally devised as an alternative still photography technique by Jean-Pierre Sudre in the 60s, Mordençage has been adapted for 16mm to create beautifully altered images on black and white motion picture film. A form of bleach-etching or gelatin relief, Mordençage both chemically bleaches the images so that they can be redeveloped (and sometimes solarized) as well as lifts
the dense blacks of the emulsion away from the base creating dancing veils of emulsion. In this workshop, participants can work with black and white negative, positive and/or BW found footage.

It is the second workshop in the residency program Analogue Adventure that is offered to Finnish and Finland-based artists who want to learn about and experiment with analogue film and photography. The program is generously supported by Taike, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, KulturÖsterbotten, Schaumans Stiftelse and the city of Vaasa.

The workshop language is English.
Workshop fee is 80€. All materials are included.
Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi
(binding registration)

During this 2-day workshop, we are learning and experimenting with analogue photographic techniques, for example cyanotype and toning, salt printing and chemigram / phytogram within the time we have together. Through these we are looking into the earliest photographic processes dating to the 1830s. Sustainable chemistry and practices are considered and discussed. We will work with local plants and found materials.

Together we can create a safer space for everyone to work in their comfortable capacity. There will be a letter to participants with small requests on what to bring, but the main materials are provided by Filmverkstaden. However, if You have the possibility to print high-contrast negative versions of your images in black & white on transparency film before the workshop, you can bring those with you. However, this is not necessary as we can also work with cameraless techniques.

The workshop is held by Noora Sandgren and created in collaboration with the Sustainable Darkroom in London. It is the first one to kick-start the residency program Analogue Adventure that is offered to Finnish and Finland-based artists who want to learn about and experiment with analogue film and photography. The program is generously supported by Taike, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, KulturÖsterbotten, Schaumans Stiftelse and the city of Vaasa.

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The workshop takes place during Tuesday and Wednesday 10–17. Participants are also welcome to continue their processes in the space after our shared time on Tuesday.

The workshop language is English (as well as Finnish, if needed).
Workshop fee is 80€. All materials are included.
Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi
(binding registration)