OBS! This is a workshop aimed at intermediate analogue filmmakers, moderately comfortable with the basics of analogue filmmaking.

When: 6.7. & 9., 10:00 - 16:00
Where: Polar Film Lab (Kysten), Strandveien 95, Tromsø

Please sign up with writing an email to: polarfilmlab@gmail.com.

It is part of our DIY/LIT series focused on experimenting and learning together to develop our shared knowledge base in analogue filmmaking. As such, in this workshop we will be working some things out as we go.
Once you have mastered the processes of shooting and developing your negative film, you may think, what now? This workshop will go through the process of getting your B & W negative print to a projection-ready positive print image.

We will try bipacking a Bolex, and contact printing on a Steenbeck editing table. These are techniques that when advanced can also be used in matting and to create analogue special effects. This workshop will take place both in and out of the dark room and we will be using caffenol processing.

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 NON-EXPERTS 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! 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: Print stock, equipment, chemicals, our time and some different experience working with different analogue equipment/formats, lunch and coffee :)
What you provide: Cooperation, a black & white negative film, any knowledge you may have.