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Ghostly feedback: film/video hybridity
Sam Meech and Guillaume Vallée

WORKSHOP

October 15th, 17th, 22nd, and 23rd, 2024
Vidéographe, 4550 Garnier street, Montreal QC, H2J 3S7

95$ + taxes



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Registration deadline: October 14th, 2024

Description

A very special halloween video séance for hybrid hellraisers, combining analogue video feedback, scratch film and digital capture techniques to generate real-time visual effects, and possibly ghosts. Split across 4 evenings over two weeks, brave participants will be guided on a journey through the screen with the help of our mediums – film and video. We will be opening portals, releasing video spirits, and capturing ghosts on film. In the process, we will be exploring extremely unusual and innovative techniques that go beyond this realm.

 

  • 12 hours of group training
  • Where: Vidéographe, 4550 Garnier street, Montreal QC, H2J 3S7
  • Dates and time: October 15, 17, 22 and 23, 2024 from 6PM to 9PM
  • Public transportation: Mount-Royal metro station; bus lines 27, 45 and 97
  • Cost: 95$ + taxes

 

This workshop will be given in English and in French.

Please note that LSQ and ASL interpreters can be arranged. If you identify as d/Deaf and would like an interpreter, please contact Mick Sand before registering.

Mick Sand

info@videographe.org

(514) 521-2116 (extension 221)

 

For any additional information regarding trainings, please contact:

Mick Sand

info@videographe.org

(514) 521-2116 (extension 221)

 

About the workshop leaders:


Sam Meech

Sam Meech is an artist and researcher from Huddersfield, UK whose practice includes documentary, video feedback installations, and machine knitted animations.

Previously a professor at Concordia University (Intermedia) and Manchester School of Art, Sam’s research interests include the use of video feedback in arts practice (‘Video in the Abyss’) and the impact of gentrification on textile workers in Manchester (‘Fabrications’). Sam’s experience in experimental film collections and exhibition includes a residency and commission with the North West Film Archive, UK (‘Noah’s Ark’), and even building two community cinemas through his ‘Small Cinema’ project.

He once hosted a 24-hour screening of Groundhog Day, and continues to make a new work each year based on the film.

 

Guillaume Vallée

Experimental filmmaker, video artist and independent curator, Guillaume Vallée graduated from Concordia University with a degree in animation and an MFA in Studio Arts – Film Production. He is interested in all alternative forms of the moving image. His work makes use of various techno-artisanal techniques, exploring media materiality through direct intervention, optical manipulation and analog distortion, with the aim of creating hybrid and expanded works. He works mainly in Super8, 16mm and VHS.

 

This workshop was made possible thanks to the support of:

   

Camera-less Cinema
Guillaume Vallée with invited artist

WORKSHOP

March 8th and 9th
Vidéographe, 4550 Garnier street, Montreal QC, H2J 3S7

60$ + taxes



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Registration deadline: March 3rd, 2025

Description

Camera-less creation is a marginal film genre that can be defined as experimental animation. The various processes that make up this genre come very close to the studio arts, through the manual work of direct intervention on film (Super8, 16mm, 35mm). The workshop leader’s approach focuses mainly on the recycling of found footage on 16mm film, and the various ways of transforming filmic emulsion using ink, etching, emulsion lifting, and contact printing.

 

  • 12 hours of group training
  • Where: Vidéographe, 4550 Garnier street, Montreal QC, H2J 3S7
  • Dates and time: March 8th and 9th, 2025 from 10AM to 5PM (with a 1 hour lunch break)
  • Plublic transportation: Mount-Royal metro station; bus lines 27, 45 and 97
  • Cost: 60$ + taxes

 

This workshop will be given in French.

Please note that LSQ and ASL interpreters can be arranged. If you identify as d/Deaf and would like an interpreter, please contact Mick Sand before registering.

Mick Sand

info@videographe.org

(514) 521-2116 (extension 221)

 

For any additional information regarding trainings, please contact:

Mick Sand

info@videographe.org

(514) 521-2116 (extension 221)

 

About the workshop leader:


Guillaume Vallée

Experimental filmmaker, video artist and independent curator, Guillaume Vallée graduated from Concordia University with a degree in animation and an MFA in Studio Arts – Film Production. He is interested in all alternative forms of the moving image. His work makes use of various techno-artisanal techniques, exploring media materiality through direct intervention, optical manipulation and analog distortion, with the aim of creating hybrid and expanded works. He works mainly in Super8, 16mm and VHS.

 

This workshop was made possible thanks to the support of:

       

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