Darkroom Play with 16mm colour film with visiting filmmaker Sandy McLennan

Sunday, October 13 2024, 10:00am - 6:00pm 

How is colour film different from black & white when working in the darkroom? We'll lose the fear by playing with different image-making processes on 16mm film: camera-less photograms/contact printing, camera shooting, developing negative, reversal (positive images) and both negative and positive in one clip. Sometimes “realistic”, mostly not — what do you love when you see it? You’ll find out if this labour and thinking suits your curiosity or your art. Kodak 3383 film stock is relatively low cost stock and it does not have the Remjet coating (a black layer found on colour negative film stock that must be removed in a messy additional step), so it's straightforward to start experimenting with. A completely Do-it-Yourself procedure where you’ll gain the experience of knowing how and, more importantly, if this is for you.

About the instructor:

Sandy McLennan loves wandering just outside his darkroom door (the home or portable one) with cameras and sound recorders. Processing Double 8/super 8/16mm motion pictures and pinhole-camera paper negatives reveals memory of personal and state-of-the-world emotions. He improvises with audio from shoot-location field recordings and sound associated with film creation. He leads workshops giving the experience of slow time via analogue technology. He has exhibited motion pictures, photography, installation/performance and sound and has received grants from Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council. In 2022 Sandy received an honourable mention from the jury at Dresdner Schmalfilmtage (which came with a prize of 1000 feet of Orwo 16mm film!) for “Moving, parts one and two” which he screened a 16mm print of while there. 

Sandy is fortunate to have grown up analogue (projecting Regular 8mm home movies, shooting slides on a big-brother gifted 35mm camera, running a darkroom and VHS editing station as an audio-visual technician in public schools) then drifting with the tide to digital, now using the “right tool at the right time” with all available, including the benefit of a darkroom at home and taking up hand-processing motion picture film. Double 8mm is from before, and yet it still exists. As with anything that’s uniquely valuable, be part of it while you can.

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