Held over two weekends, this workshop will focus on the poetics of First Person Cinema.
Participants will watch and discuss work by filmmakers who explore meditative subtle explorations of carefully framed shots and indexical in-camera abstractions. Participants will be invited to show their final projects in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. After one week of shooting two rolls of high contrast 16mm, participants will hand process their footage with an emphasis on clean images (no scratches) and no image manipulation.
Experience in hand processing is an asset, but not essential.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Solomon Nagler’s films have played across Canada, in the U.S., Europe and Asia at venues such the Centre Pompidou (Paris), L’Université Paris Panthéon Sorbonne and Lincoln Center in New York. His work has been featured in Retrospectives at the Winnipeg Cinematheque in August of 2004, at the Excentris Cinema in Montreal in August of 2007, the Festival De Le Cinéma Different in Paris in December 2005 and 2007, The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers and The Canadian Film Institute in 2009. Originally from Winnipeg, Solomon Nagler currently lives in Halifax where he is a professor of film production at NSCAD University.
