Waikato Film Hub - Experimental Film One Day Workshop

Date: Saturday, 5 December 2020

Venue/Location: WINTEC Media Arts – use of a P block class rooms (edit suites/handycams & tripods use)

** All equipment provided **

Saturday event: 9:00 - 4:30

The day workshop is run by two tutors and is split into different segments over the day. At the end of the day participants will come away with a completed project.

Introduction to the genre - Classic and Contemporary Experimental film:

Experimental and avant-garde film is cinema made outside of the film industry on an artisanal basis, largely without regard to the structures and demands of traditional narrative film. 
Currently, filmmakers are using video and new media of all kinds as well as including film in larger multimedia installations. Scholarship and writing about experimental film run the gamut from deeply personal and casual in tone to highly dense and theoretical.

Discussions and viewings

Introduce ‘Structuralist’ Experimental Project - 4 images, 1 screen, N-S-E-W POVs

• Establish structural parameters by viewing an exemplar “TNDIA TV by John Mandelberg and Janice Abo Ganis.

Using a handycam and tripod, teams established (4 per team) will chose an interesting location to film.

LUNCH break

Exercises on Automatic Writing as a basis for making Experimental work, look at William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch etc) writing technique

Output: Group read new writing from these exercises and discuss how to develop a way of making/utilising the automatic writing in an experimental film.

Make up teams to work together (some to be actors), to film and edit a short 30 secs 
1 mins project. Film, Edit and post produce the projects.

Screen completed works

Wrap up and final discussion

If you would like more information about the day course, please email info@waikatofilmhub.co.nz