Live Screening: From Cape Town to Scarborough
Location: 70 Prairie Dr, Scarborough, ON M1L 1L5
Date: July 22, 2023
In 1973, the Liliefeldt family arrived to Scarborough, ON from Cape Town, South Africa. The home movies presented in this live event displays life before and after immigrating to Toronto. An earlier film made in Cape Town, South Africa in the mid-1950s contrasts with those of the family. Both films depict places and events around the city, played-out against something that is not so directly seen in the footage: apartheid.
Workshop: Experimental Filmmaking with Archival Footage
Location: 1137 Dupont Street Toronto, ON M6H 2A3
Date: July 27, 2023
Participants will repurpose and rework existing Super 8 and 8mm film using a variety of tactile analogue techniques including: painting, drawing, scratching, tinting and toning, bleaching, collaging, contact printing onto 16mm film and processing using conventional and eco- chemistries. No previous experience is necessary.
Workshop: Film Collage
Location: 29 McCaul Street Toronto, ON M5T 1V7Â
Date: July 28, 2023
In this workshop participants will create 8mm collage films, a practice that Jake picked up while working as an intern for Craig Baldwin at Other Cinema in San Francisco. Film collage allows artists to repurpose all varieties of discarded films, giving them new life as handmade, anomalous works of art. Super8 and 8mm footage will be provided, but participants are also welcome and encouraged to bring their own.
Workshop: Phonotropes
Location:Â 29 McCaul Street Toronto, ON M5T 1V7Â
Date: July 29, 2023
Learn about pre-cinema animation devices such as thaumatropes and zoetropes, and then apply the techniques covered in this workshop to make your own physical animation devices on paper. This workshop will focus on the creation of phonotropes; paper discs that, when rotated on a record turntable, activate looping animations that are drawn directly onto the disc. Once mastered, this simple technique has a multitude of different variants and creative applications. No animation experience necessary.