In this hands-on workshop, participants learn how to operate the 16mm JK optical printer and the various techniques for creating special effects on film.

• On the first day of the workshop, participants take part in test sessions, explore film selection and the creation of optical effects, including Super 8 blow-ups, masking and splitscreens.
• On the second day, participants will put into practice what they have learned from the previous day by making different sequences.

The images thus created will be developed by hand and screened, followed by a discussion.

The workshop price includes film and developing chemicals.

Please note that the workshop will be given in French, but questions may be asked in English. For more information, please contact us at : services@mainfilm.qc.ca

Alexandre Larose

“Traversed, precisely, by a particular form of porosity with the field of documentary, (Alexandre Larose’s work) constitutes both a sensitive and equipped investigation of the perceptual categories through which we apprehend reality, and a waking reverie on the labyrinths of memory. His career has thus led him to pay ever-greater attention to the forms of imprint elaborated by film, and the very notion of documentation – be it of a place, a situation, an architectural, familial or memorial configuration – is central to it, while remaining fundamentally informed by the technical specificities of the material he employs (…). The function of technique in his work is therefore decisive, and Larose himself readily refers to his films as projects prescribed by the instrument.”

-Éric Thouvenel, Débordements