Super 8 Films made at CK workshop at Bradford International Film Festival!

Check out these films which were made at the CK workshop at BIFF this April - some really excellent work, and all learnt and done in 2 short days! It was brilliant to shoot the films at the National Media Museum, because we had access to their weird and wonderful displays, such as the hall of mirrors and other oddities - I'm definitely planning on returning there with my own camera very soon to shoot for a film I'm making! Cheers so much to Jen Skinner for looking after us all so well too! I'll try to regularly upload workshop films, past and present, to the Cherry Kino vimeo channel, so you can keep enjoying what people have been making! The digital transfer is very lo-fi in the way we did it - the originals look so much better - but hopefully one day soon, CK will have a telecine system! x CK

Photos from the Cherry Kino events at the Saltaire Arts Trail!

Hello! The Cherry Kino events at the Saltaire Arts Trail on 5th and 6th May went sooo well! There were three very different kinds of events, and each had really good responses from people who came along. Here are photos from the screening of the films by Storm De Hirsch, in Salts Mill under the old water tank (thanks to Andy Ward for these photos!), and also from the Super 8 installation in the Village Launderette! A very big thank you again to Bradford City of Film, Salts Mill, Andy from the Village Launderette, and of course to the whole team at the Saltaire Arts Trail, with special thanks going to the Creative Director Amanda Chinneck for her support!

x CK

no.w.here summer school!

Hey all! Am just posting info about no.w.here's film summer school, which looks really excellent. Get in touch with no.w.here to book. x CK Info: A Lecture from behind the screen Summer School Six weeks from 25th June to 3 August: Every week Monday-Thursday, 10-5.30pm, with Fridays reserved for independent study and extra events. Early bird rate - the first five bookings pay £1200 Five places are held at special member rates of £1200 are open to current and new members Remaining fifteen places are at £1500 no.w.here’s summer school A Lecture from Behind the Screen is a six-week programme that builds on our reputation as a vital community and site for the production, discussion and dissemination of practices engaged with the moving image, politics, technology and aesthetics. The no.w.here summer school is not interested in reproducing the structures, canons and learning models on offer in Higher Education; equally we are not an autonomous free school. Though no.w.here cannot operate outside the rampant privatisation of education we can provide a pedagogical environment that grounds itself on egalitarian, non-profit terms. A Lecture from Behind the Screen will offer participants a combination of theoretical seminars, one-on-one contact with tutors, student-led activities, field trips, guest workshops led by artists and theorists alongside an intensive programme of hands-on film and video making. These components are reliant upon and reflective of one another in a manner that allows practice to enlighten theory, collective experimentation to inform individual production. The school runs Monday-Thursday, 10-5.30pm, with Fridays reserved for independent study and extra events. There will be 2 confirmed guests each week including, amongst others: Thomas Hirschhorn, Mikhail Karikis, Uriel Orlow, Hilary Koob-Sassen, The Otolith Group, Martina Mullaney, Camille Barbagallo, Frances Rifkin, Chto Delat? (Details on each artist are below) Curriculum outline: no.w.here summer school The group learning sessions take place Monday to Wednesday, with Thursday reserved for independent lab work and Friday reserved for independent study as well as additional events and field trips. Each day is split into a three hour morning session (10am-1pm) and a three and a half hour afternoon session (2-5.30pm). Seminar details and digital sessions are subject to change, but the guest workshops and lab timetable is fixed. The week kicks off with a theory seminar led by Maxa Zoller on Monday mornings. The first two seminars will look at the recent turn to a phenomenological engagement with film. Involving the visitor’s physical body contemporary film and video art encourages a new form of thinking ‘in time’ (Deleuze) and ‘through the body’ (Sobchak) ..... (see full info on the no.w.here website - www.no-w-here.org.uk)

Super 8 workshop at Bradford International Film Festival this April!

Cherry Kino is running a two-day Super8 filmmaking workshop as part of the Bradford International Film Festival on Thursday 26th and Friday 27th April from 10am at the National Media Museum in Bradford! There are 5 places currently available (the course accommodates 8 people in total), so if you'd like to book, email:cherrykinocinema@yahoo.com

Participants will use top end Super8 cameras to film out and about in the cinematographic city of Bradford, learning tips and tricks for multiple different ways to use the cameras, including time lapse, slow motion filming and long exposures. We will take a look at how other artists have used the medium, and try our hand at some hand-painting on Super8 film, and we will cover all the stocks and resources currently available to the Super8 filmmaker. Participants will learn how to hand-process their own film in a fantastic DIY method that makes Super8 film processing fun, very economical, and a social occasion! The finished reels will be transferred to a digital format using a DIY telecine method, to show how it can be done at home, and participants will take home their original Super8 reel. A DVD of the films will be sent to all participants shortly after the end of the workshop.

The cost of the workshop is £80 in total for the two days, and includes all materials and use of all equipment. To book, please email: cherrykinocinema@yahoo.com
Early booking is recommended, as three places have been taken and there are 5 left at the time of writing this post!

Looking forward to it! Also check out BIFF's programme - get yourself to the cinema in Bradford this April!

Some more news too...
Cherry Kino was involved with the Yorkshire Psychedelia night on Saturday, a gig with musicians Harry, Violaine, Emi and Mark improvising and me (Martha) doing the visuals, and Ashtray Navigations played, as well as The Family Elan - it was a great night at Patrick Studios, and a lot of fun!

Also, Cherry Kino helped the artist Jacob Everett make a stop-motion Super8 film of himself doing a large portrait over 2 days, which you can see here - good work Jacob!

biro on paper from Jacob Everett on Vimeo.

And, the Cherry Kino 8-week Super8 Courses are now finished! Some wonderful films have been created, and you will get the chance to see them at the end of April at a free screening at Patrick Studios, and also at the 'Wunder Nacht' event during the Saltaire Arts Trail!

x CK

Northern Film School filmmaking session!

Cherry Kino just ran a Super 8 workshop for students of the Northern Film School in Leeds. Since the students who attended were all cinematographers, and the workshop formed part of their experimental film module, the resulting films were really interesting and full of invention! One person even decided to cross process their film in C-41 to yield a negative image, which looked excellent when projected and worked really well. It constantly gives me pleasure enjoying the sheer diversity of views people demonstrate with how they use their Super 8 cameras, and which functions they are drawn to using. Which reminds me that using Super 8 cameras, in my view, enables people to really let their hair down and express their individuality through the camera, to be playful and to expect the unexpected. Then when you come to the hand processing, there are again myriad ways of doing this, to get lots of varied effects. Thanks to Judita, Joe, John, Sean, Jess, Alex and Nancy for a good time and some great film work!

Here are some pictures taken by Judita of the day we spent processing and projecting!

x CK

Cherry Kino at the Saltaire Arts Trail 2012!

Cherry Kino is once again taking part in the Saltaire Arts Trail!
A big thank you to Bradford City of Film who are kindly helping to support the events, and thanks also to all the host venues!

SUPER 8 SALON & 16mm FILM INSTALLATION
Saturday 5th May (part of the larger WunderNacht event, £6 entry includes a drink)
Various Artists / Curated by Cherry Kino / Supported by Bradford City of Film
Exhibition Building, Shipley College

As part of the WunderNacht event, the Super 8 Salon will feature films made by participants of Cherry Kino’s analogue filmmaking courses in Bradford and Leeds. Exhibiting a wide range of camera-based filmmaking techniques as well as some hand-painted film, experimental colour processing, and even black and white films processed in coffee (yes, coffee!), this screening of contemporary work explores the variety of artistic approaches available to the Super 8 filmmaker, simultaneously debunking the assumption that film is dead. The event will also feature a 16mm film installation, situated in the entrance of the building as you arrive.

STORM DE HIRSCH, 16mm FILMS
Sunday 6th May, 2pm – 4pm
Curated by Cherry Kino / Supported by Bradford City of Film
Salts Mill (access from Café into the Opera, top floor)
FREE

Artist filmmaker Storm de Hirsch was active in the New York avant-garde scene in the ‘60s and early ‘70s, but has largely been omitted from the well-worn ‘canon’ of experimental film. These are joyous, hallucinatory, intensely colourful, dynamic and rhythmical works created using a variety of techniques including painting directly onto 16mm film, scratching into the film emulsion and shooting on outdated film stock, as well as some black and white work. This selection of six of her films - two of them silent and four with sound - will be projected on 16mm in a superbly atmospheric (and little-known) top room of the Salts Mill building underneath the old water tank. Dress warmly!

WASHDAY BLUES
Sunday 6th May, 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Film Installation by Martha Jurksaitis / Supported by Bradford City of Film
Saltaire Launderette (TBC)
FREE

A film installation located in the character-filled village launderette featuring film footage of laundry, shot locally on Super 8 and 16mm. Titus Salt famously outlawed hanging washing out to dry in public in the village of Saltaire. This rule now seems old-fashioned, a tad ridiculous, and definitely not applicable to modern-day life and values. Or is it? Believe it or not, landlords and community associations across the US and some in the UK are trying to ban people from hanging out their washing to dry, stating that it lowers the value of the area. ‘Washday Blues’ cinematographically celebrates this simple domestic activity, and invites you to consider why landlords, past and present, deem it unfit for public view.

x CK

Handmade Film Emulsion

Hello!

In January I went to a handmade film emulsion workshop at the WORM Filmwerkplaats during the Rotterdam Film Festival. It was run by Alex MacKenzie and Robert Schaller, and we learnt how to make film emulsion from scratch, and paint it onto clear 16mm film under a red safelight in the dark room, let the film dry, and then reel it up and load it into a camera to shoot or make test strips by contact printing. It was a really ace workshop, and I'm going to practise what I learnt and make some film! The image below is some of the film we made, and then contact printed from a negative to do tests and see how it went. The pic is the film being looked at through a film viewer.

Yesterday I did some photography in the dark room, making some prints from really old negatives (like, about 60-70 years old!) that were in a box of stuff my friend gave me, that used to belong to her granddad. The photos are of her grandma and mum as a toddler - she has no idea they exist, so I'm gonna surprise her with them over coffee in a few days! It's a real rush making prints of negs that old, especially when you know they're precious to someone. It was a really good experience.

Been printing on the JK optical printer loads lately (pictured above!), getting the hang of it and doing lots of tests before working on a longer piece. A Doncaster-based filmmaker Peter Samson is going to come and use it soon for a piece he's working on. It's a really addictive machine!

I'll post the recipe info for the handmade emulsion soon - going to bed now!

x CK