Cyanotype Filmmaking Following the Sun’s Excursion with Interbay Cinema Society [In-Person]
Tuition for this workshop series is priced on a sliding scale, from $150 to $300. Please pay what you can so that we can continue to offer this pricing model and keep our workshops accessible!
About
In this cyanotype filmmaking cohort, participants get together during annual celestial milestones. Following the Sun’s excursion, the three meetings are set (approximately) during the Solar Summer Solstice, Autumn Equinox, and Winter Solstice.
Participants will have the opportunity to experiment with multiple exposures, layers, found footage, tinting, wet and dry cyanotype. All tools, materials, and equipment will be provided. While participants are encouraged to forage or bring from home their own materials, and tools that attract their curiosity and imagination. Further cyanotype filmmaking materials and support will be available in-between the group meetings.
Films created will be digitized by Colormatters, funded by Interbay Cinema Society. The digital transfer will be available to the group ahead of the Winter Solstice theatrical screening. So, filmmakers will have the time to materialize —individual and group – editing and programming decisions.
On Winter Solstice, in December, the group will celebrate the longest night of the year with a screening at the NWFF theater that will bring the films to light. ICS and NWFF equipment and facilities for digital, 16mm, and expanded cinema performances will be available.
All levels of experience are welcomed.
When:
June 20th – Meet at the Center for Urban Horticulture at 10am–there is an option to carpool with other participants from Northwest Film Forum, please reach out to team@interbaycinemasociety.org for more information
September 26th -Meet at the Center for Urban Horticulture
December 10th – Screening at Northwest Film Forum
Where:
The Center for Urban Horticulture – 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA 98105 – Google Maps
Northwest Film Forum – 1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122 – Google Maps
Tina Jacobson
Tina Jacobson creates handmade, eco-friendly, home processed films. Her art is shaped by plants, sunlight, the wind, our local geography and climate. Elements of our landscape interact with the materiality of celluloid film – also with fabric and paper- and guide a cameraless process. The non-toxic chemistry is made from plants, flowers and organic matter that she forages from her garden and during her walks with Breezy – her grown-up Labrador puppy. Inspired by PNW seasonal themes and cultural refrains, she explores the relation between light, movement, and texture to create hand-painted, cyanotype, land and marine floral still, and moving images. Tina captures on camera how our landscape shapes light – in digital time lapse and double 8mm film. For example, her hydrography films are light inscriptions of the movement of Puget Sound, the Salish Sea, and Union Bay. Her films have showcased in Seattle at PNW Local Sightings at Northwest Film Forum, and Engauge Experimental Film Festival. Previously, she worked in documentary film production for 10 years, with specialization in sound, and editing. Her documentary films have been programmed at the Seattle Social Justice Film Festival (2014, 2016).