Film Workshop at 25 FPS: Contact Printing
A hands on workshop in exploring the DIY 16mm contact printer by Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie.
The contact printer is one of the most essential part of the cinema apparatus. Almost every film for which there was more than one copy was contact printed. Yet the contribution to cinema of contact printing machines is by and large invisible. Typically, the idea of a contact printer is to make duplicates as close as possible to the original. That is a useful service upon which the history of cinema, including experimental cinema, has relied. Yet contact printing is capable of much more than that. They can be a tool for original and complex image compositing. There are a lot of games, both conventional and unconventional, that can be played on what is a relatively simple device. In this practical workshop, Australian experimental film artists Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie will help you explore and unpack the possibilities of the contact printer in a day of black and white printing bliss.
Schedule: September 29th from 10.00 - 16.00.
Workshop fee: Klubvizija SC lab members: 100 kn; non-members: 150 kn.
Application email: sc.klubvizija@gmail.com. In email please indicate your previous film-making experience as well as reasons for participating in this specialized workshop. Applications are open till September 23rd and selected participants will be contacted on September 24th.
Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie are media artists, film-makers, prominent and active members of the international artist run lab scene (filmlabs.org), devoted in sharing their knowledge about hand made cinema through workshops and classes. Together they established Nanolab, a film laboratory and intersection of hand making and industrial cinema technology in Australia. The exploration has spread to the establishment of Artist Film Workshop, where celluloid is embraced and advocated by a community of practitioners. They have presented their films and expanded cinema performances at various venues and film festivals around the globe.