Sat Apr 16, 2011 12:00 - Sat Apr 23, 2011

Vancouver, Canada

Manufacturing the Fragile Image is an intermediate two day hands-on workshop that will teach participants how to manufacture their own black and white 16mm movie film from scratch using only raw chemistry and clear plastic. Participants will then learn how to make a 16mm print onto their new handmade film by collectively building a hand-cranked contact printer, a primitive machine built from common 16mm editing supplies. Workshop time will be split with one day mixing the emulsion and applying it to 16mm clear leader while a second day will be spent building the homemade contact printer and making prints onto the newly manufactured film.  Images made onto homemade emulsion yield beautiful imperfections - it’s these imperfections that we’re looking to exploit and celebrate. As this is an intermediate workshop, it is highly recommended that participants bring their own images to work with in either negative or positive form.  All other workshop materials will be provided by Cineworks and are included in the cost of the workshop.  
WORKSHOP NAME:  MANUFACTURING THE FRAGILE IMAGE
DATE AND TIME: Sat., April 16 and Sat., April 23, 10 am – 4 pm
PLACE: Cineworks Annex, 235 Alexander St., Ironworks Building
COST:  $120 for Members before April 1, $140 for Members after April 1
$180 Non-Members
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 13, 2011
TO REGISTER, CALL CINEWORKS AT 604-685-3841 OR CONTACT
info (at) cineworks (dot) ca
Instructor:  For the past decade, film artist cj brabant has explored the regeneration and reformatting of the small-gauge film image. Working to make the familiar unfamiliar, brabant creates visual abstractions
that yield the unseen and unfelt by means of mechanical and DIY processes that fracture, disassemble, and reassemble isolated moments. cj's film work continues to screen internationally, most recently with his 35mm work "the fall".

Fri Sep 10, 2010 00:00 - Fri Sep 03, 2010

CINEWORKS PRESENTS SANS COMIC
FOR SWARM 11 (2010)

Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society is pleased to present work by local film and video artists Barry Doupé, Julia Feyrer, Sharon Kahanoff, and Stephen Wichuk for the exhibition Sans Comic for SWARM 11 (2010). The exhibition will be open as a one-night installation at the Cineworks Annex, 235 Alexander St. (Ironworks Building, back entrance). Sans Comic brings together works that prompt nervous laughter, with moments of seriousness verging on absurdity, inspiring giddiness, even terror. Through the condition of ‘inappropriate mirth’, the show’s title implies the status of the ‘un-funny’; the works, through their playful and awkward gestures, question the social, ethical and formal conventions surrounding humour and taste.
The exhibition will be open for one night only during SWARM 11 (2010), Friday, Sept. 10, starting at 7 pm. Refreshments will be available.

If you would like more information about upcoming Cineworks events, visit www.cineworks.ca, call Programs Manager and Curator Jennifer Cane at 604.685.3841 or email programs (at) cineworks.ca. Image courtesy Barry Doupé.

MORE INFO THROUGH THE SWARM TWITTER-FEED AT http://swarm.paarc.ca/>

Thu Aug 26, 2010 00:00 - Thu Aug 19, 2010

Canada

Film titles are useful not only to those filmmakers finishing on celluloid, but to anyone who wants to avoid the 'cold' look of digital titles in their video work. This workshop allows participants to create basic, white-text-on-black, 16mm titles on the new animation stand at the Cineworks Annex.

Although the aim will to be correctly execute these standard titles in class, the workshop also serves as an introduction to the animation stand itself. A brief discussion of the stand's functions will suggest more advanced titling ideas and methods. Having used the stand in its basic operation, participants will be in a position to pursue such experiments outside this workshop. In order to complete the basic titles participants are asked to come prepared with paper prints or digital files of their images (specifications available upon registration). The end product will be a 16mm colour negative (positive prints & digital transfer not included).

CREATING BASIC 16 mm TITLES
SATURDAY, AUG. 28th
10 am-4 pm
Cineworks Annex [235 Alexander St., Ironworks Building], Vancouver BC

Instructor: STEPHEN WICHUK is an animator and arts educator born in Edmonton, Alberta. He received his bachelor of media arts at the Emily Carr Institute in 2005 and has been working there as lead studio technician in the animation department since 2007. He has taught animation principles to people of all ages through the Arts Umbrella, Reel2Real, VSB, Cineworks, Emily Carr and the Purple Thistle. He provides technical support to a wide variety of media artists working with film and digital technology and currently services four film animation stands in Vancouver. His own animations are musically- driven stop motion studies in 16mm and sterescopic digital video.

$140 for members / $190 for non-members
$120 members before Aug 12th /$170 non-members before Aug 12th
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Thursday, Aug. 26th

To register, please call 604.685.3841 or contact Leanne at info (AT) cineworks (DOT) ca

Sat Aug 14, 2010 00:00 - Thu Jul 15, 2010

Film design is both practical and conceptual. This workshop takes you through the intuitive and methodical processes of production design, exploring colour principles and storyboarding basics. Using reading skills, analysis and application, we will cover methods and principles that can be used for any scale of project. Participants may want to use the session as an opportunity for pre-production planning for a project already in development. The previous week’s workshop “Pictorial Zones” is recommended as a complimentary session in the Cinematic Stagecraft Series.
In this five hour workshop participants learn how to:
*Use principles of colour as they apply to sets and costume *Discern colour using language to convey ideas *Make cinematic concept illustrations *Draw the human figure as it applies to live action *Convey screen direction through storyboarding

CINEMATIC STAGECRAFT SERIES: CHROMA AND ACTION MAPPING
SATURDAY, AUG. 14th
11 am-4 pm
Cineworks Screening Room[1131 Howe, back lane entrance]

Instructor: LISA CELOTTO
Lisa Celotto is a filmmaker and teacher who has coached the design and staging of over 300 short dramatic films as a teacher at VFS, Canadian College, and Langara. Lisa has producing, writing, sound mixing, art direction and production design screen credits and has been teaching new filmmakers for 14 years. Working with new filmmakers always offers a unique perspective to the art of filmmaking because each step of the process is invented and discovered as the medium changes.

$150 for members / $200 for non-members
$130 members before July 29th /$180 non-members before July 29th

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Thursday, Aug. 12th
To register, please call 604.685.3841 or contact Leanne at info@cineworks.ca

Sat Aug 07, 2010 00:00 - Thu Jul 15, 2010

Film design is both practical and conceptual. This workshop takes you through the intuitive and methodical processes of production design, exploring locations, floor plans, and concept drawings. Using reading skills, analysis and application, we will cover methods and principles that can be used for any scale of project. Participants may want to use the session as an opportunity for pre-production planning for a project already in development. The following week’s workshop “Chroma and Action Mapping” is recommended as a complimentary session in the Cinematic Stagecraft Series.
In this five hour workshop participants learn how to:
*Do location surveys* Make good location documentation*Draw accurate and useful floor plans* Get the most out of locations as working sets* Develop studio sets* Make informative concept drawings
CINEMATIC STAGECRAFT SERIES: PICTORIAL ZONES
SATURDAY, AUG. 7th
11 am-4 pm
Cineworks Screening Room[1131 Howe, back lane entrance]

Instructor: LISA CELOTTO
Lisa Celotto is a filmmaker and teacher who has coached the design and staging of over 300 short dramatic films as a teacher at VFS, Canadian College, and Langara. Lisa has producing, writing, sound mixing, art direction and production design screen credits and has been teaching new filmmakers for 14 years. Working with new filmmakers always offers a unique perspective to the art of filmmaking because each step of the process is invented and discovered as the medium changes.

$150 for members / $200 for non-members
$130 members before July 22nd/$180 non-members before July 22nd

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Thursday, Aug. 5th
To register, please call 604.685.3841 or contact Leanne at info@cineworks.ca