Tracy Affleck

Archive Film and Photography workshop

coFWD

21st March 2013

“I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler.”

Christian Boltanski

Structure and Aims of Workshop 21st March

Introduction using found film as a practice

3 x 30 mins in rotation

Cutting and splicing 8mm film

Layering transparency film and rephotographing

Photo montage/collage

Collaborative exhibition

Possibility of having a collaborative exhibition in May for those who are interested

I will also do a few more specific workshops throughout the year concentrating on certain aspects that we have skimmed over in the

workshops

Stan Brakhage – Mothlight Cameraless film

“Over the lightbulbs there’s all these dead moth wings, and I ... hate that. Such a sadness; there must surely be something to do with that. I tenderly picked them out and start pasting them onto a strip of film, to try to... give them life again, to animate them again, to try to put them into some sort of life through the motion picture machine.”

Film Excerpts

Stan Brakhage – Mothlight (Cameraless)

Len Lye – Free Radicals (Scratch into film)

Ken Jacobs – Tom Tom the Pipers Son (deconstruction of film)

George Barber – Absence of Satan (Scratch film)

John Smith – The Girl Chewing Gum (humour/narrative)

Types of Film

16mm film projector

16mm film camera (Bolex)

Ammassalik, Greenland Images

Ammassalik, Greenland Images

Ammassalik, Greenland Images

Ammassalik, Greenland Images

Ammassalik, Greenland Images

Ammassalik, Greenland Images