Workshops

Workshops are how we learn new apraoches to filmmaking and also it's a way of making film quickly and enjoying it as an activity which can be it's own reward.

When artists come and screen at the star and shadow, sometimes they run a workshop. We also run workshops for each other and the public to share new techniques and ideas. Sometimes also we are asked to do a workshop elsewhere.

Experiments in colour, June 2013,

Trying some techniques in which the idea was animation by contact printing directly onto colour print film through painted acetates and with coloured light. We printed onto 35mm and then looped the results and made reductions onto 16mm.

Recycled Film Workshop with Craig Baldwin

This one was organised by the terrific AV Festival in May 2010. So it wasn't technically a Film Bee thing. However it happened at our home venue with some of our equipment and it was managed by Mat and Christo so it makes the list anyway!

Craig Baldwin led a five-day workshop for local artists and filmmakers. The workshop focused on using found 16mm film footage, with each participant encouraged to make a film in the five-days. The final films were screened at an event at Star and Shadow Cinema in May 2010.

A Stependous experience, Led by David Markey, 2004 (?)

A workshop in which each participant was given a short length of film and selected a tune. David Markey is a great rock and roll filmmaker and just got on with it in a punk style. We shot, developed, and contact printed a film each (8 in total?) and they were spliced together into one great mash up. On the right is just a single fragment of the film which we must really get around to restoring and showing.