Movement Imagined: 16mm Pinhole Camera Workshop with Tetsuya Maruyama [In-Person]
$250 (contributing): You can pay the costs of the workshop plus a little more to help the organization with programs like these in the future.
$200 (regular rate): You can pay the real costs of this workshop.
$150 (reduced rate): You join the workshop with support from the organization and others who’ve made this workshop possible.
Prerequisite of participants:
Anyone interested in experimenting with moving images in photochemical format. Age group above 14 years.
About
“Stenopeic camera does not have a lens. We have a lens in our eyes, and without it we would be blind. Pinhole camera is blind because it does not have a lens.” Paolo Gioli, about pinhole film
In this workshop, we will experiment with some of the most archaic photography techniques; pinhole camera and contact printing, with the use of old Japanese matchboxes provided by the workshop teacher. Pan-cinema raw material; time and space. From images captured on 16mm film frame by frame, we create negative and positive copies with Print Film. This technique allows the freedom to work directly with the surface of the film with light, in the same way as a painter leaves his/her gesture on a canvas.
A 35mm photographic film cassette modification is required to load 16mm film, along with making a small camera box with household items such as a matchbox. Thus, we can also print information on the sound area of the film. We will see some works made with these techniques by artists like Paolo Gioli, Dianna Barrie, Philipp Fleischmann, etc.
At the end, we will present a collective film installation on the last day of the workshop.
Workshop Details:
Dates: June 7 & 8
- June 7 – Presentation of films made with pinhole camera of different handmade formats, such as 16mm film box, 35mm film can, super 8mm cartridge, metal tubes, etc. from various authors.
- Making a pinhole camera with a matchbox.
- Photographing with a pinhole camera in the vicinity of the workshop location.
- Developing film.
- June 8 – Continue photographing and developing film.
- Copying with contact printing on 16mm film.
- Assembly of collective film-installation.
- Activation of installation open to the public.
Times: 10 AM – 3 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.
Costs: Please note that we make every effort to keep costs reasonable while providing a decent honorarium for an established artist who is sharing skills and techniques with us.
$250 (contributing) – You can pay the costs of the workshop plus a little more to help the organization with programs like these in the future.
$200 (regular rate) – You can pay the real costs of this workshop.
$150 (reduced rate) – You join the workshop with support from the organization and others who’ve made this workshop possible.
If you have any questions or cannot pay the minimum registration fee and would like to discuss a scholarship please contact derek@nwfilmforum.org.
Tetsuya Maruyama
Tetsuya Maruyama (b. Yokohama, 1983) is an artist whose interdisciplinary practice includes film, text, performance, sound, idea, installation, etc. (not necessarily in this order). His work departs from re-contextualization of found banal matters and textures, as a liminal record of quotidian observations. As an independent programmer and researcher, he has presented programs on Brazilian experimental cinema in the US, Argentina, Brazil, Japan, and Canada. He is a founder of Megalab, an artist-run film lab in Rio de Janeiro.