Traditional filmmaking

and hand-process film workshop

Traditional filmmaking and hand-process film workshop brings together emerging filmmakers and artists to participate in a complete introduction to the processes of analog filmmaking (super 8mm), from the use of various super 8 cameras to the different steps of hand-processing the films, all the way to experimenting with projecting the final result in the form of an exhibition.

The idea of the workshop emerged through the interest of many filmmakers and artists to learn more about analog filmmaking techniques. As filmmaking is nowadays taught mainly through digital media, the analog film has become harder to access due to its high cost, the unavailability of film rolls, and the fact that professional laboratories in Thailand no longer process super 8 films. The workshop aims to make analog filmmaking more accessible. We believe that analog film should be a creative choice available to artists and filmmakers and that its aesthetics, its materiality, the work processes it requires enrich each of our scope of understanding what moving images have been and can be. The co-existence of analog processes with the digital image ensures a very fertile and diverse ground for creativity and varied approaches to moving images.

Participants will be encouraged to develop hands-on skills and a DIY mindset as well as explore another relationship to image making that conjures a very different temporality and materiality.