Introductory workshop to all things moving-image and analogue! The DIY-ers at Polar Film Lab will lead a workshop for analogue novices, amateurs, and all others over 3 days.

When: 21st-23rd April, 10:00 - 17:00
Polar Film Lab (Kysten), Tromsø

PFL provides equipment and material for the workshop.
If you have any questions email: polarfilmlab@gmail.com

This will include an introduction to analogue 16mm cameras (Bolex and Krasnagorsk) and an introduction to at least some of the things that can go wrong with them. We will collectively film outside while light, before coming inside to develop the black and white negatives using traditional photochemical processes. Finally, we will throw some light through our new film! We will take a look at what we have produced, and learn a little about how a projector (Eiki) works.

This is part of our DIY/LIT introduction series: Polar Film Lab has been running for some time, however - while we know a variety of different things - we are DIY and experimentation-focused, and as such these workshops are very much about learning, experimenting, playing and trying to get to grips with the different tactility of analogue cine-film together! We are about DIY, collective learning and feeding into each other’s different types of knowledge. Analogue formats are exciting, offer lots of room for experimentation and for evolution into contemporary, cutting-edge image-making. They also use very old, mechanical equipment which offers lots of room for failure. This is part of the excitement and joy, but also makes it a slow and imprecise process - be aware you may make beautiful films that look nothing like what you hoped! (You may also, on occasion, make films which are entirely black!)

As part of the workshop we will provide: Film stock, equipment, chemicals, our time and some different experience working with different analogue equipment/formats, lunch and coffee :)

What you provide: Cooperation, any knowledge that you have, and a (loose) idea of something you would like to film.

We ask for a limited fee of 300kr to cover some of the costs of materials, but if you are unwaged/low-waged get in touch as we have some free spaces. We aim to make Polar Film Lab as accessible as possible, for as broad a group as possible, and aim to offer as much free or on a ‘Pay what you can’ framework as possible - if you receive project funding or have an income, we ask that you help us keep doing what we are doing by paying a small fee.