Monoflex and Mordançage
15-16.10.2022 kl(o) 11-18
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)
Lindsay McIntyre
Lindsay McIntyre (she/her) is a filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist of Inuit and settler descent working primarily with analogue film. She has an MFA in Film Production from Concordia University and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Alberta. Her multiple award-wining short documentaries, experimental films and expanded cinema performances are often process-based and for some she also makes her own 16mm film with handmade silver gelatine emulsion.
Her short documentaries, experimental films, and expanded cinema performances have been seen around the world including at Ann Arbor, Anthology Film Archives, Pleasure Dome, Mono No Aware, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Analogica, WNDX, imagineNATIVE, Images, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Raindance, One Flaming Arrow, and Black Maria, and can be found in several permanent collections. She is an Associate Professor of Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design on unceded Coast Salish territories and she teaches film anywhere else that people will listen.
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Ways with photography – towards sustainable image making
23-24.8.2022 kl(o) 10-17
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)
Noora Sandgren
Noora Sandgren is a visual artist, art educator and sometimes a curator working in site sensitive ways. She’s interested in learning and collaborating within interdisciplinary settings. Noora received her Masters in Photography at Aalto University where she also carries out MA studies in Art education. She has worked with various communities and audiences facilitating art and science topics. Her practice has roots in wanderings and living by the Central Forest in Helsinki and her home garden at Hiidenvesi.
Matt & Print
22.5.2022 kl(o) 11-18
We are happy to host this workshop Matt & Print with Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie (AUS).
We will be experimenting with creating matts, rayogramming and printing. These loops create interesting optical sound.
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Fee is 30€, all materials included.
Workshop is held in English.
Made possible by Taike, Svenska Kulturfonden and the city of Vaasa
Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie (AUS)
Affordable Large-Format Photography.
9-10.4.2022 kl(o) 11-17
Welcome to a workshop with visiting artist Armands Andže (LV).
During this workshop, participants will learn basics in black and white large-format photography in cheap and affordable way, by using photographic paper instead of film. Two main techniques will be looked at - how to make paper negatives, and unique paper positives. Also participants will get a chance to make their own glass plates. Dry silver/gelatine glassplate negatives/positives replaced wet-plate collodion process, as the main means of photography in 1871, process still in use today, laying foundations to modern film photography - black and white, and color. In this workshop there will be available three most popular sizes of large format cameras - 4x5” technical camera, 5x7” and 8x10” studio cameras.The workshop will be held in English.
Workshop fee is 80€, and materials are included.
Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)Kindly supported by Nordic Culture Point
Armands Andže
Armands Andže (LV) is a member of Baltic Analog lab artists collective from Riga, Latvia. He is practising analog photography for more than 14 years, and last 7 years focusing mainly on large-format photography, recreating various historic photographic techniques and processes.
Light Designs
5-6.3.2022 kl(o) 11-17
Welcome to a mind-blowing workshop with visiting artist Elvira Akzigitova (EE/DE).
In this 2-day workshop we will be touching on how to modulate light, how photographic material absorbs light, how to regulate it’s intensity and how to create luminous volume, movement and rhythm.
With such techniques like luminogramme (drawing/molding/modulating with light on light- sensitive surfaces) and electric photography (Kirlian photography) the students are welcome to practice the process of crafting a cameraless photographic impression from beginning to end.
This process is intuitive and can take us to a place where chance and skill blend in unforeseeable ways. Furthermore, the darkroom workshop will not only spare us from our familiar approaches of image making, but show us things unseen by the naked eye.
Once a fuller understanding of the medium's potential is achieved, through exercises, experimentation and play - the participants can develop their own artistic signature to create an original work.The workshop will be held in English.
Workshop fee is 80€.
Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)Kindly supported by Nordic Culture Point
Elvira Akzigitova
Elvira Akzigitova is an experimenter who spends long hours in the dark with a red light, trying to capture the trace of light and its tactile essentials. In addition to traditional analog photography tools and light sources, she also has a rather unusual tool called Violet Wand in her arsenal. By electrifying organic matter with this secret weapon, she succeeds in revealing what is otherwise hidden to the eye, but visible on light-sensitive materials. According to the artist, she works on the edge of photography and painting, just where these two practices meet and blend. Alternative, and at times, antique processes, abstract - inward looking images - Elvira decisively replaces the humanist documentary with a display of photographs presented as themes or events in themselves.
Website: http://chelovekvsobake.tumblr.com/
