Youth Cyanotype Workshop with Tina Jacobson [In-Person]
*PARTICIPANTS MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR YOUNGER*
Suggested registration is $100, sliding scale available.
About
In this one-day workshop, young aspiring filmmakers in collaboration with our ecosystem will creatively engage in the making of 16mm cyanotype film. Participants will have fun, play, and experiment with texture and tactility, light and vision. Cyanotypes – on paper and on film – will be a unique print shaped by the season, time of day, location and climate – sun, rain, breeze, trees, and foraged material. At the end of the day we will watch the cyanotype films at NWFF – a world premiere open to family and friends. Following,16mm films will be scanned, the digital transfer will become available online to the participants and their families.
Workshop Details:
Dates: July 26
Times: 10 AM – 2 PM with a break for lunch. Participants are encouraged to bring lunch with them.
Location: Northwest Film Forum Workshop Room (Please note that this space requires participants to climb stairs)
What to Bring: All materials and tools will be provided, but feel free to bring special tools with you if you have them. Please mark them with your name.
If you have any questions or cannot pay the minimum registration fee and would like to discuss a scholarship please contact derek@nwfilmforum.org.
Tina Jacobson
Filmmaker
My films are inspired by seasonal themes and cultural refrains of the PNW. Elements of our landscape interact with the materiality of celluloid film and guide a cameraless creative process. So that, moving images include our local geography and climate, plants and trees. Also, hydrography films are inscriptions of the movement of Puget Sound, the Salish Sea, Union Bay. I engage and explore the relation between light, movement and texture/tactility to create hand-painting, and cyanotype films. Following this direction, I experiment with phytography, home processing, non-toxic chemistry made from local plants that I forage in my garden or on my walks along Seattle’s shoreline. The focus of my scholar work is on documentary film, the historiographical function of cinema, and considerations relating film aesthetics and spectatorship. My films have screened at Local Sightings NWFF, Engauge Experimental Film Festival. Earlier work was shown at Seattle Social Justice Film Festival. I have taught Digital Filmmaking to youth in Seattle and experimental film at Cornish College of the Arts.
