The workshop, which ran between 10am and 5pm, concentrated on ways of manipulating Super 8 film using various mark-making and destructive techniques in order to create something entirely new with a blank or pre-exposed length of film. By the end of the day, each person had created four or five loops, ready for that evenings live show.

A little break and a celebratory beer later in the Delegate Centre, at 7.30pm the lights dimmed and Matt began the soundtrack to the performance with the eerily-cool opener from ‘Get Carter’, signalling us to switch the projectors to full power…

After an hour of constantly changing visuals everyone had performed their own work for about 10 minutes each, but as my loops became too hot they started to fry and melt under the heat of the projector bulbs and was a prett neat way to finish!

I was exhausted, but as each participant was grinning wildly I could only assume they had a great time, along with the generous turnout from friends, family and EIFF staff and Delegates (although I’m sure some were only there because Happy Hour ended 5 minutes before we went on…)

Well done to everyone who took part. You rock quite a bit.

Steve

The projectors are primed, the bleach is thick and we’re gonna make some crazy hand-manipulated loops to entertain the delegates and invited guests. My good fiend Matt Kemp is up from Lodon to assist and lend his Super 8-geek knowhow and Dj skills to play along to our performance. I’ve yet to meet the participants, but I’m sure we’ll all be buddies by the end of the day.

I’ll put up images and maybe some video tomorrow, as long as everything goes to plan and the reels of film don’t combust and our work goes up in a ball of flames.

Actually, that would be pretty cool projected onto the wall…

If you’re coming along to the performance at the Delegate centre on Bread Street, please note that we’ll be starting slightly later at 7.30pm until 9pm.

Thats all for now, I have to pack up the equipment and down a vat of coffee.

Steve

Workshop: Cameraless Filmmaking

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Hand Processing (one person only)

3 Hours

£55

Materials Included