This workshop is sold out. If you would like to be added to the waiting list, please email training@winnipegfilmgroup.com.
Finally back after a long hiatus, the Bolex Film Experiment!
Class 1, Saturday March 11th 11:00am – 2:00pm– Films on Films intro
Class 2, Saturday, April 15th – 11:00am – 6:00pm (1 hr lunch) – Processing Black and White Film (Ektachrome can be sent for processing) with Kristiane Church
Class 3, Saturday, April 22nd – 11:00am – 6:00pm (1 hr lunch) – Rayograms with Kristiane Church and Heidi Philips
Class 4, Saturday, April 29th and Sunday April 30th – 11:00am – 6:00pm (1 hr lunch) – Steenbeck and Direct animation
Class 5, Screening day, May 8th at 7pm at the Dave Barber Cinematheque
*Note: This in-person workshop is limited to 8 participants. While masks are no longer required to be worn in indoor public spaces in Manitoba, individuals are recommended to wear a mask in our Production Centre.
Make a film on 16mm film with the Bolex experiment! This series of workshops will cover all aspects of experimental filmmaking (ON FILM!) and offer a buffet of tips, tricks, and inspiration! You will shoot film! Process film! Splice film! Destroy film! Project film! And you will enjoy it!
Join Rhayne Vermette (and some super fun special guests Kristiane Church and Ed Ackerman) on a wonderful but intensive filmmaking journey, and make your own experimental film on FILM! Yes that’s right, we will be making complete films and screening them in The Cinematheque to end the workshop!
Price of the workshop includes 100’ B/W 3788 16mm film.
*You can also buy additional Kodak Ektachrome 7294 16mm Colour Reversal Film (100ft : ASA 100D) for $100. Please let the WFG know in advance by March 20th.
Instructor Bios:
Rhayne Vermette was born in Notre Dame de Lourdes, Manitoba. It was while studying architecture at the University of Manitoba, that she fell into the practices of image making and storytelling. Primarily self taught, Rhayne’s films are opulent collages of fiction, animation, documentary, reenactments and divine interruption. Ste. Anne is her first feature narrative, which won the Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.
Kristiane Church is an artist working in Winnipeg, Manitoba in filmmaking, photography, performance and installation. Her current work Betula is a constructed cinematic environment which participants can enter. She works as the Photography Technician at the School of Art and as a freelance cinematographer for various artists. She loves walking around big dark fields!
Heidi Phillips is an experimental filmmaker and installation artist from Manitoba, Canada with an affinity for the tactility of the filmic medium. Phillips’ often uses thrifted super 8 films, contact printing and darkroom experiments to push her work into new places. Phillips’ old school process frequently becomes part of the content, as grainy scratched films are merged with images lifted from found footage to create mesmerizing, transcendent works.
Ed Ackerman is an animator who explores cinematic language using the materials he finds close at hand: plasticine, photocopiers, 5-year old children let loose in a village with disposable cameras and, most famously, typewriters. He was born in Winnipeg and after a year at Ryerson;s film school, returned home and made two collaborative films with Greg Zbitnew: “5 Cents a Copy” and “Sarah’s Dream.” He has since lived in Montreal, Toronto and rural Ontario. He went on to make films for Sesame Street, IMAX, the National Film Board of Canada, the CBC and public service announcements for US television featuring “Smokey the Bear.”
Ackerman’s film “Primiti Too Taa,” made in collaboration with Colin Morton, is a three-minute nonsense sound poem based on the writing of Kurt Schwitters. It has shown across the country and around the world at festivals and cinematheques, and won numerous awards.
REFUND POLICY
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Full refund |
| 7 days to 48 hours prior to start date |
Full refund less 20% administration fee |
| Less than 48 hours prior to start date |
No refund |
The Winnipeg Film Group reserves the right to cancel any course where the minimum registration has not been met. Anyone registered for a course that has been cancelled is eligible for a full refund, Cancelled course fees may also be used towards any other Winnipeg Film Group training programs.
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