Ghostly feedback: film/video hybridity
Sam Meech and Guillaume Vallée
WORKSHOP
95$ + taxes
Registration deadline: October 14th, 2025
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 22nd and 23rd, 29th and 30th 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:
