This 16mm film workshop operates with a sliding scale of $25-$50. When sending payment to Cashapp/Venmo, please put "Animation Workshop" in the comment. Tickets will also be available at the door if tickets don't sell out here. Once you send payment, please reserve a ticket with the “Order Tickets” button below. Materials are provided.
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In this class we’ll explore multiple ways we can work with the texture of celluloid directly as a means of creating both representational and abstract animations. Using 16mm and 35mm film as a surface, students will work on several short animations, using blank film as well as found-footage reels from commercials and old movies. With this new canvas, they’ll learn how to use synchromatic transparent dyes, inks, acrylic paint, glues, scotch tape, and other available tools as a means of animating.
1.) Introduction to Film as a Canvas -
In this class we’ll begin by watching some examples of direct-animated films, featuring Federica Foglia, Aldo Tambellini, Stan Brakhage, M. Woods work, and the work of other animators at the start of the session. We’ll discuss all of the different techniques being used including:
A - Film Collage
B - Tinting and sharpies
C - Scratching and Bleaching
D - Representational and Abstract Animation
ACTIVITY
Students will create a 2 second animation using sharpies on 16mm film. We’ll tape together the results and project them to analyze how these small gestures develop over time.
This workshop will be instructed by M. Woods (They/Them/He/Him). They have been screening work internationally since 2007 while a student at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where they studied under filmmakers Lynne Sachs and Marco Williams. Originally mentored by Design Convergence Lab co-founder Mindy Faber, M is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and activist based in Chicago and the principal creative at DISASSOCIATIVE PRODUCTIONS www.thedigitalsickness.com M was the recipient of the Erna Plachte Award at the University of Oxford (MFA 2021), and they have exhibited their work extensively for the past 15 years, including at IFFR, the Flaherty Seminar, The Royal Society of British Artists, The Oberhausen International Film Festival, the Bodleian Library, Prismatic Ground, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival, where they also served as special curator. They have received support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Light Cone Paris, The Filmmaker’s Coop, and Collectif Jeune Cinema.