jv2010_filmwerkplaats

hi esther,

thanks to YOU!! it was very inspireing, and it was much fun to work with very enthusiastic participants! thinking already about more film experiemnts...!!

i am sitting here in the bathroom to catch some wireless through the snow... rather unstable but at least. see below the list of book list, i
hope the details are enough.. i will prepare an invoice later today and send it over via pdf. i just take the worm adress as receiver, ok? or shall i also put your name in
the invoice?

all the best for now,
katier

Are you in for some (obscure) supernatural experiments on celluloid?

THOUGHTOGRAPHY on 16mm film guided by Kathrin Gunter

BOOKS
→ Photographing the invisible, James Coates
→ The mysterious world of Ted Serios, Jules Eisenbud
→ Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism , William Crookes
→ Clairvoyance and Thoughtography, T. Fukurai
→ Chronicles of the photographs of spiritual beings and phenomena
invisible to the material eye, Giorgiana Houghton
→ Spirit photography, Pamphlet, A. C. Doyle
→ Jenseits von licht und Schatten, Rolf H. Krauss
→ Beyond the Spectrum, Cyril Permutt
→ Encyclopedia for Psychic Science, Nandor Fodor
→ Telepathy and Thought Transference, Sidney A. Weltmer

do it yourself dolly track system and other handy film grip by Allen Kemp

Retired BBC model maker Allen Kemp still does often odd jobs in what he himself calls primitive engineering for the Horizon program. But he is happy to sacrifice some of his free days to help us build some do-it-yourself film grip. Such as a dolly track system and a crane rig. Very handy equipment to let a film camera make the most spectaculair visual movement effects.

Thought is a radiant, creative, almost material power, the fiat lux of the bible. During the process of thinking, the soul turns the atoms of the brain into waves and makes its phosphor glow. With concentrating ones thought onto any object with simple outlines, like a bottle for example, the fluidic thought image will be forced out through the eyes to expose itself through the power of its glow onto film. The result is an image.

In this workshop participants will try, throughout a variety of thoughto - photographic experiments, to focus, force, project and possibly expose thoughts onto light sensitive film materials.

All necessary materials, including a range of light sensitive (Super8, 16mm 35mm) film materials and chemicals, will be provided. Containers or devices may be constructed here or welcome to be brought along.

Thoughts are welcome. Results cannot be promised.

The phenomenological hunting apparatus
do-it-yourself 16mm film making by Robert Todd

Since 1989, Boston-based filmmaker Robert Todd has been quietly developing one of the most distinctive bodies of work in the American film scene. His collection of short films, shot in 16mm, demonstrate a masterful command of the medium, the strong influence of painting, musical forms and poetry, and an openness to chance. His works have been exhibited internationally at festivals including Ann Arbor Film Festival, San Francisco International Film, Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Paris Biennial, and many others. His films have won numerous festival prizes, grants, and artist’s awards. He currently teaches film production at Emerson College in Boston.

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Workshop at Worm in Rotterdam: Screening the Results

Late but at least !at all!, I can publish one video that I was shared thankfully by Maria Botella, via Judith (THANK YOU!).
It shows the evening screening at Worm: 4 Projectors reveal several 16 mm thoughtographic film loops, which have been exposed by very fluid participants throughout a very inspiring and funny day !! Thank you all!! And especially Esther from Worm for all chemicals, materials, darkroom & hot soup support!
I hope there will be more results soon to be shown, but a crashed computer and missing internet doesn’t help….

“Cabinet for thouhtography” from María Botella on Vimeo.

The Moral Lens by Deborah Stratman

Film is often used and abused in the form of propaganda, or employed more subtly to reinforce – and undermine – dominant modes of thinking in society, film speaks directly to a broad audience, making it one of the most sophisticated ways to transmit a moral message or explore a moral question.

Hello Esther

To be honest, I've only just started thinking on what we might cover and
how.

16mm gear sounds great. So nice that you have processing capabilities right
there. I'm fine with shooting black & white or color.

I don't know much about processing my own film. I've done hi-con before,
but seems more beneficial to focus on concepts and shooting for this
particular workshop than on post-production tech.

Please bear with me as I think 'aloud' here...
But these are some things I've been mulling over, and maybe they can help
lead us into a workshop description:

- Morality's ties to the social

- Morality's ties to ecology - being OF the world as opposed to IN it

- The need for a moral reexamination of our industrial/capital metaphors for
'nature' (a resource for immediate consumption, a foe to be conquered,
property to be owned and sold, a wild animal to be tamed into submission)

- The role of the sublime (the experience of it) as a basis for a shared
sense of human identity and respect

- The relationship between political change and subjectivity
the individual (artist) as moral agent

- Morality's function vis a vis images of the other (Arabs, gays,
minorities, etc.)

- Journalistic conundrums: documenting violence and injustice

Roman Polanski
Karl Heinz Stokhausen
Johan Grimonprez
Don Dillillo

that's all I've got just now.
let me know if this sparks/provokes anything for you
deborah

Hi -
thanks so much for inviting me to help run the workshop this past week, it really was an education for me, with that diversity of students and the post-work that you managed for us all.
I did drop the keys to the office and the apartment in the mailslot at the apartment.
AND I left the office with my box of films that I had put on the editing table in the office, and on there was a processed roll of black and white film, double perf on a core that had no label on it but a bit of masking tape, and in my haste I set it aside, but once on the train realized that it was CLARA's neg that she'd shot on the 7363. SHe and I had talked and I told her that I would bring it back to the US to print it and return to her once I'd done that.
SILLY ME - I Left it there, on that edit machine, and am wondering if you could send it to me on the slow mail...?
AND - I realized later that if you sent me a copy of the Ektachrome assignment it's likely to be PAL, so I'm going to have to puzzle that one out over here I guess.
Also - I forgot how we were going to work out the flight reimbursement, but I had mentioned PayPal for at least the FedEx, and I'll be calling FedEx today about the receipt for that.
I'll send you some copies of my work as soon as I can make them, and maybe a few copies of OFFICE SUITE's disk for the store, since that seemed to be popular.
thanks again, and hope to see you soon!

in collaboration with Witte de With

filmwerkplaats
by fcr

Part of a yet-to-be-completed film on the DIY film lab at WORM, Rotterdam. Shot on 16mm 10 ISO b/w high contrast stock with a Krasnogorsk-3, M42 Pentax Takumar lenses + Praktica macro rings. All editing in-camera. Hand-developed at WORM filmwerkplaats, telecine by Cinepro Zandvoort using the Daan Müller frame scanner. Made as part of Robert Todd's film workshop at WORM.

A short (2-day) workshop as an introduction of working according the d-i-y way of 16mm filming. The workshop will cover techniques such as (spring Bolex) camera, light reading, lenses, developing,(contact/optical) printing, camera less technique, "flatbed" editing and chemical experiments. During this 2-days you will work with the camera yourself, you then develop, print and cut the film.

D-I-Y INTRO WORKSHOPS

Re: THE FILM 'PUNCH' - ABOUT MAKING SALAD
Amazing!
Thank you so much Esther.
My class is going to Berlin on Monday and coming back Wednesday.
So if you do get the scans back I could come by on thursday or friday if that works for you.
Just let me know if they come back.
Thanks again.