Évènement à venir
- Broadcasting and distribution strategies | In person - June 20, 2023 - 6 pm - 9 pm
- Hand processing (Black & White negative film) | In-person - June 11, 2023 - 10 am - 5 pm
- Introduction to Audiovisual Performances | In person - June 13, 2023 - 6 pm - 9 pm
- Remix and image deteriotation #2 | In-person - July 7, 2023 - 10 am - 5 pm
- Remix and image deteriotation | In-person - June 23, 2023 - 10 am - 5 pm
- Special effects on film #2 | In-person - July 15, 2023 - July 16, 2023 - 10 am - 5 pm
- Have followed the Introduction to the Optical Printer course
- Have autonomous practice on the optical printer
- Have already taken this course in previous years
- Special effects on film | In-person - June 17, 2023 - June 18, 2023 - 10 am - 5 pm
- Have followed the Introduction to the Optical Printer course
- Have autonomous practice on the optical printer
- Have already taken this course in previous years
20
Jun
Broadcasting and distribution strategies | In person
Workshop - Exploratory Cinema - Spring 2023
Date / Heure
20 June 2023
6 pm - 9 pm
Lieu
Main Film
2025 Rue Parthenais #301, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2, Québec
Instructor | Serge Abiaad (La Distributrice de Films)
Member $40 | Non-member $60
Discover the distribution strategy of experimental cinema. From self-distribution to festivals, markets, galleries, distributors and the web, the instructor will review the different stages of marketing, the essential promotional tools, the key players and the potential distribution venues, so that you will be able to implement a relevant methodology.
For any information, send an email to: services@mainfilm.qc.ca
Serge Abiaad
Serge Abiaad has taught film at the Université de Montréal and at Cégep Édouard-Montpetit. He is the executive director of La Distributrice de Films.
“La Distributrice de films considers that short films are not an exercise in emancipation or a springboard to feature films; they are neither a ceremonial hazing nor the stamp of a pass, because making a short film is already making cinema. La Distributrice de films is therefore committed, through the web, the big screen and the festival circuit, to participate in the promotion of Quebec cinema and filmmakers through a shorter format. ” www.ladistributrice.ca
11
Jun
Hand processing (Black & White negative film) | In-person
Workshop - Exploratory Cinema - Spring 2023
Date / Heure
11 June 2023
10 am - 5 pm
Lieu
Main Film
2025 Rue Parthenais #301, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2, Québec
Instructor | Guillaume Vallée
Member $150 | Non-member $225
SOLD OUT – WAITING LIST OPEN AT SERVICES@MAINFILM.QC.CA
Hand processing allows the filmmakers unique control over the visual outcome of their film. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn which chemistries to use, developing recipes, the different ways to develop, and the basics of using a darkroom.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own exposed film to be developed during the workshop.
For any information, send an email to: services@mainfilm.qc.ca
Guillaume Vallée
© Sarah Seene
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 works primarily in Super8, 16mm and VHS. His audiovisual performances have been presented in a multitude of festivals in Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and Austria. His experimental films and videos, distributed by Vidéographe, Light Cone and Winnipeg Film Group, have been presented internationally in many festivals. Guillaume Vallée was artist-in-residence at La Bande Vidéo (Canada) in 2017, at Le Fresnoy – studio national des arts contemporains (France) and at Signal Culture (USA) in 2018. In 2020, he was able to complete three artist residencies, at Studio 303 (Montreal, CA), Visual Alchemy with Al Razutis (British Columbia, CA) and Main Film (Montreal, CA). In 2021, at PANACHE Art Actuel (Sept-Îles, CA) and at Light Cone’s post-production residency, Atelier 105 (Paris, FR) to edit his latest short film elles s’élèvent, ces forteresses éponges.
13
Jun
Introduction to Audiovisual Performances | In person
Workshop - Exploratory Cinema - Spring 2023
Date / Heure
13 June 2023
6 pm - 9 pm
Lieu
Main Film
2025 Rue Parthenais #301, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2, Québec
Instructor | Maxime Corbeil-Perron
Member $60 | Non-member $90
Beyond the movie theater, audiovisual works are now found in a variety of unusual environments. During this theoretical workshop, participants will have the opportunity to review the history and the different types of audiovisual performance practices. With the help of concrete examples that will be presented during the training, participants will discover new ways of creating and presenting works. Various devices and types of performance will be presented, including analog video and digital audio performance.
For any information, send an email to: services@mainfilm.qc.ca
Maxime Corbeil-Perron
ⓒ Ira Lacdao
Maxime Corbeil-Perron (he/him) is a Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal-based artist whose practice unfolds in a multiplicity of mediums: audiovisual performance, experimental cinema, electroacoustic composition, improvisation, sound art and installation. His recent works present an approach related to media archaeology, in which he seeks to establish relationships between obsolete media and contemporary technologies, in search of new aesthetic possibilities.
7
Jul
Remix and image deteriotation #2 | In-person
Workshop - Exploratory Cinema - Spring 2023
Date / Heure
7 July 2023
10 am - 5 pm
Lieu
Main Film
2025 Rue Parthenais #301, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2, Québec
Instructor | Charles-André Coderre
Member $105 | Non-member $150
SOLD OUT – WAITING LIST OPEN AT SERVICES@MAINFILM.QC.CA
During this workshop you will be introduced to different techniques used in the creation of an experimental work. Discover and test these processes, which stem from the same artistic gesture, and which give the medium a new meaning by questioning the cinematographic experience of the filmmaker as well as the spectator. The use of found footage as well as chemical deterioration techniques and direct work on film, whether remixed, scratched, washed out, colorized or buried, have crossed the ages and will be presented through examples and film excerpts.
The price includes found-footage for the workshop.
For any information, send an email to: services@mainfilm.qc.ca
Charles-André Coderre
Charles-André Coderre lives and works in Montreal. He makes films and works on live 16mm projections for several performances and music concerts. His films are distributed by Light Cone (Paris), CFMDC (Toronto) and Vidéographe (Montreal). In 2016, he co-directed his first feature film Déserts. He is currently developing a second fiction feature film.
23
Jun
Remix and image deteriotation | In-person
Workshop - Exploratory Cinema - Spring 2023
Date / Heure
23 June 2023
10 am - 5 pm
Lieu
Main Film
2025 Rue Parthenais #301, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2, Québec
Instructor | Charles-André Coderre
Member $105 | Non-member $150
SOLD OUT – WAITING LIST OPEN AT SERVICES@MAINFILM.QC.CA
During this workshop you will be introduced to different techniques used in the creation of an experimental work. Discover and test these processes, which stem from the same artistic gesture, and which give the medium a new meaning by questioning the cinematographic experience of the filmmaker as well as the spectator. The use of found footage as well as chemical deterioration techniques and direct work on film, whether remixed, scratched, washed out, colorized or buried, have crossed the ages and will be presented through examples and film excerpts.
The price includes found-footage for the workshop.
For any information, send an email to: services@mainfilm.qc.ca
Charles-André Coderre
Charles-André Coderre lives and works in Montreal. He makes films and works on live 16mm projections for several performances and music concerts. His films are distributed by Light Cone (Paris), CFMDC (Toronto) and Vidéographe (Montreal). In 2016, he co-directed his first feature film Déserts. He is currently developing a second fiction feature film.
15
Jul
16
Jul
Special effects on film #2 | In-person
Workshop - Exploratory Cinema - Spring 2023
Date / Heure
15 July 2023 - 16 July 2023
10 am - 5 pm
Lieu
Main Film
2025 Rue Parthenais #301, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2, Québec
Instructor | Erin Weisgerber
MANDATORY PRE-REQUISITE FOR THIS WORKSHOP (see below)
Members $210 | Non-members $280
LIMITED PLACES
The workshop fee includes film and processing chemicals.
In this hands-on workshop, participants learn how to operate the 16mm JK optical printer as well as the various techniques for creating special effects on film. On the first day of the workshop, participants will take part in test sessions, explore film selection and optical effects creation, including optical zooms, Super 8 blow-ups, masking, splits-screens and credits. On the second day, participants will put into practice what they learned the day before by making different sequences.
The images created will be developed by hand and will be the subject of a projection followed by a discussion.
MANDATORY PRE-REQUISITE FOR THIS WORKSHOP (at least 1 option):
The price of the workshop includes the film and the development chemicals.
For any information, send an email to: services@mainfilm.qc.ca
Erin Weisgerber is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal based artist who works with photochemical film to produce installations, performances and short films. She manipulates the photographic, chemical and material properties of film to transform the world framed by her camera, bringing about moving images that exist between figuration and abstraction, exterior vision and interior landscape. Weisgerber is a member of the Double Negative Collective, a group of moving image artists dedicated to creating and exhibiting experimental and avant-garde cinema and maintaining a self-managed artisanal film lab. Since 2019, she is a member of Jerusalem in My Heart, an audiovisual performance project, with Lebanese producer and musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh.
17
Jun
18
Jun
Special effects on film | In-person
Workshop - Exploratory Cinema - Spring 2023
Date / Heure
17 June 2023 - 18 June 2023
10 am - 5 pm
Lieu
Main Film
2025 Rue Parthenais #301, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2, Québec
Instructor | Alexandre Larose
MANDATORY PRE-REQUISITE FOR THIS WORKSHOP (see below)
Members $210 | Non-members $280
SOLD OUT – WAITING LIST OPEN AT SERVICES@MAINFILM.QC.CA
The workshop fee includes film and processing chemicals.
In this hands-on workshop, participants learn how to operate the 16mm JK optical printer as well as the various techniques for creating special effects on film. On the first day of the workshop, participants will take part in test sessions, explore film selection and optical effects creation, including optical zooms, Super 8 blow-ups, masking, splits-screens and credits. On the second day, participants will put into practice what they learned the day before by making different sequences.
The images created will be developed by hand and will be the subject of a projection followed by a discussion.
MANDATORY PRE-REQUISITE FOR THIS WORKSHOP (at least 1 option):
The price of the workshop includes the film and the development chemicals.
For any information, send an email to: services@mainfilm.qc.ca
Alexandre Larose
“The works of Alexandre Larose amount to a contemporary cinema of attractions. They are a continuous attempt at describing (and making palpable) the overlapping meshes of film, memory, and the way we experience dreams and space. (…) The somnambulistic, psychedelic impression given by many of his films springs from the specific double character of cinema: as a machine of fiction and imagination as well as a literal machine, a product of the art of engineering. The latter allows for highly individual technical interventions such as, for example, the construction of a camera rocket or the development of color processing, which turn the world into an amorphous film grain gelatin. Entirely without CGI effects and working close to the properties of the analog medium, Larose creates impossible images that nevertheless have their source in reality.”
-Alejandro Bachmann, Austrian Film Museum