Devised and fascilitated by artist and filmmaker Luis Macias, this workshop aims to explore different tools and possibilities around using multiple photographic slide projectors. It regards the projector as a tool and the slide as a non-static image.

Participants will learn how to shoot, develop and intervene black and white 35mm reversal film slides, and also explore creative ways of live projection with multiple carousel slide projectors, exploring different modifications, both internal and external.

This workshop is in conjunction with Harkat's 16mm Film Festival, where Luis Macias is a guest artist. The workshop will end with a collective improvisation exercise that will be performed live at the festival.

Timings:

Sat - Sun, 7th - 8th Dec: 10 am to 5 pm (attendance is required on both days)

About Luis Macias

Luis Macias is an artist, filmmaker and image composer. His pieces deal with the formal and spectral properties of the moving image, through the exploration of the cinematographic device itself and the photochemical nature of the medium. Focused on experimental and procedural practices of analog image, his works in Super 8,16mm, 35mm and video formats are composed for projection, performance or installation. His films and pieces of expanded cinema have been shown in prestigious film, art and music festivals as well as art centers, museums and alternative spaces around the world. 

He's been part of collective exhibitions and has had one individual so far. Also he has collaborated with various artists, musicians and filmmakers in the creation of collective works. Co-founder and an active member of Crater-Lab, an independent laboratory for analog cinema, and alternates his art work with specialized teaching in experimental cinema and the exploration of analog formats.

Workshop Breakdown:

Day One: Theory and practice introduction.

Possibilities of the still image — the slide, the mount, the slide as a frame, time

Possibilities of the projector — light, focus, carrousel, loop / back and forward

DYS & technological modifications — in the projector / out of the projector, arduino, electrical, 3d, laser possibilities, multiple controls, sync, time lapse, shutter

Practice I: 

making slides: creation of different images/slides with different techniques such as: print, multiple exposures, bi-pack, collage

Day two: Moving stills

Practice II:

cont. creation of different images/slides with different techniques: print, multiple exposures, bi-pack, collage II

Projection techniques — one projector / many projectors, the slide itself, double/multiple exposition: in the image/ in the mount / in the projection , masks: in the film Vs in the mount, filters, shutter and beyond

Final practice — slide projector as an instrument - multiple and collective jam performance with still images.

About the 16mm Film Festival

Now in it's 8th edition, the 16mm Film Festival was conceived by Harkat with a view of re-connecting with the cinematic medium through it’s celluloid history and present; and to foster a growing community. The festival screens photochemical based work of all formats.