 Hand-Processing:
The Methods & The Madness
This 3-hour workshop promotes a practical
and theoretical understanding of hand-processing motion picture
film with a heavy emphasis on experimentation.
Basic light and color theory, the material structure of film, and
the photochemical process that leads to an image will be addressed.
Various 8mm and 16mm tank methods are covered, including a demonstration
of the ‘spaghetti method’ using color, Super 8 film.
Students will also learn the effects of time, temperature, agitation,
pushing/pulling, and alternative developing techniques such as solarization
and cross processing.
Film/video screenings, and a 50-page
reader for each student, round out this comprehensive and briskly
paced class with plenty of room for questions and discussion.
The workshop operates best with no more
than 15 students in a classroom setting and access to a darkroom
with hot running water.
 Celluloid
Sandbox: Your Experimental Playground
This comprehensive, 7-hour workshop
will introduce you to making film as a fine art. Three areas of
alternative production will be covered in great detail; direct manipulation,
hand-processing, and re-photography. Through lecture, demo’s,
hands-on exercises and screenings of avant-garde films, you will
learn how to transform 'mistakes' and technical limitations into
aesthetic virtues. The emphasis is on low-to-no-tech experimentation
and exploring ‘process as content’. An excellent primer
for those who are new to making film as a means of personal expression,
or those looking to put some ‘funk’ into their films.
Make A Film And End The War
(A Film/Video Overview)
A technical, historical and cultural overview of
film/video relationships, focusing in particular on how the mediums
of film and video and the historical trajectory of motion picture
technology facilitate and instigate critically different perceptions
of the world, and the images we make of it. Also a fun and impassioned
rant on the 'state of things' and how cultivating a mindful filmmaking
and viewing practice as a means to seeing and being in the moment
can serve as antidotes to any war against the imagination.
Includes lecture, overhead projections, home-made
slides, audience participation and film screenings. My goal is to
screen film in order to facilitate conscious dialogue with a live
audience.
The entire presentation runs for approximately 2
hours.
*I am available to conduct workshops or deliver a
lecture anywhere in the greater Northern California area, or anywhere
in the US or abroad pending travel arrangements. Workshops and lectures
can be arranged for high school or university classes, non-profit
arts organizations, film festivals, and private groups or individuals.
Please contact me at: kenpaulrosenthal@hotmail.com
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