Ghostly feedback: film/video hybridity

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 14^th, 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:

Monograph : Work – Nathalie Bujold

PUBLICATION

2024

Publication of OUVRAGE/ WORK

This monograph, the result of a long period of study delving into Nathalie Bujold’s body of work over more than thirty years, brings together her most emblematic works. The authors whose essays appear here have closely followed her explorations or consider her artistic approach in a spirit of discovery and adventure. Their gaze, both probing and playful, is reflected in their relevant, enthusiastic writings about Bujold’s multidisciplinary and multimedia practice, now focused particularly on video production. The questions they raise cut across disciplines, prompting us to re-examine certain specific aspects of the foundations of her oeuvre. In turn, Dominique Sirois-Rouleau, Nathalie Bachand, Sylvain Campeau, and Édouard Monnet write about works with content related to the concepts of the object, the motif, the image, time, and movement intrinsic to the making of Bujold’s “books.” Taking us through time and including the artist’s incorporation of new technological tools, this nonlinear, often light-hearted overview encourages us to browse and constantly piques our curiosity about the forms of a vision constantly renewed by movement and the fragmentation of the object. (excerpt of the preface of Sonia Pelletier)

Artist: Nathalie Bujold
Texts of: Nathalie Bachand, Sylvain Campeau, Édouard Monnet, Sonia Pelletier, Dominique Sirois-Rouleau
Graphic Design: bureau60a, Vidéographe
Edited by: Sonia Pelletier

Publishing: Vidéographe
Parution: May 30 2024

ISBN: 978-2-922302- 10-3 (printed), 200 p.
ISBN: 978-2-922302-11-0 (digital – PDF)

PRICE: $49.00 + tax and shipping

► For purchase, please contact Mathilde Fauteux: distribution@videographe.org

BIOGRAPHY

Nathalie Bujold is a multidisciplinary artist, living and working in Montréal. In 1985, she was one of the founders of the artist-run centre l’Œil de Poisson in Québec City. She obtained an undergraduate degree from Université Laval in 1992, where she won the René-Richard Award. In 2008, she was awarded the Artistic Creation Award from the Conseils des Arts et des lettres du Québec. 2016 she received her master’s degree in Studio and Media Arts from UQAM. Her one-channel videos are distributed by Vidéographe and she is represented by ELLEPHANT gallery.

Free on Vithèque: 50 Years of the Moving Image

DIGITAL PUBLICATION

Vithèque

Over the decades, Vidéographe has not only evolved alongside technological advancements but has also served as a catalyst for experimentation, innovation, and artistic exploration. In this spirit, 50 Years of Moving Images pays tribute to this rich heritage, bringing together texts and perspectives from esteemed authors such as France Choinière, Julie Ravary-Pilon, Luc Bourdon, M Mensah and Sam Meech.

► Dive into the history and rich heritage of Vidéographe, now available for free on Vithèque. Click here to access the publication [+]