The DIY non-experts at Polar Film Lab will lead a workshop for analogue novices, amateurs, super-pros and all others.

When: 28th & 29th May, 09:30 - 15:30
Where: Polar Film Lab (Kysten), Tromsø

PFL provides equipment and material for the workshop.
Please sign up with writing an email to: polarfilmlab@gmail.com

Introductory workshop to colour processing! This will offer an introduction to colour processing of 16mm cine-film, the process and the chemistry involved. For those unfamiliar, there will be a brief introduction to the camera, equipment and darkroom and will shoot some film together. However, we will spend most of our time in the darkroom trying out a couple of different colour processes.

This is part of our DIY/LIT introduction series: Polar Film Lab has been running for some time but while we know a variety of different things, we are NON-EXPERTS, and as such these workshops are very much about learning, experimenting, playing and trying to get to grips with the very different tactility of analogue cine-film! 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 contemporaneous, 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.