Screening
Movement Imagined: 16mm Pinhole Camera Workshop with Tetsuya Maruyama
On Saturday, May 17th, and Sunday, May 18th, from 10am-3pm, acclaimed multimedia artist Tetsuya Maruyama will lead a 16mm pinhole camera workshop with Japanese matchboxes and contact printing.
“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 Japanese old matchbox. 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 festival.
Number of participants: 8 (maximum).
Tetsuya Maruyama (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 US, Argentina, Brazil, Japan, and Canada. He is a founder of Megalab, an artist-run film lab in Rio de Janeiro.
Program content per day/class: total hour(10h)
Day 1: 5h (10am-3pm)
- 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 pinhole camera with matchbox.
- Photographing with pinhole camera in the vicinity of the workshop location. Developing film.
Day 2: 5h (10am-3pm)
- Continue photographing and developing film.
- Copying with contact printing on 16mm film.
- Assembly of collective film-installation.
- Activation of installation open to the public.
Prerequisite of participants:
Anyone interested in experimenting with moving images in photochemical format. Age group above 14 years.
Didactic resources:
All teaching resources will be shown digitally, such as digital film files and powerpoint presentation.