“Super8 film. Amateur Home Movies” Workshop

General Information

Dates: 25-28/11
Time: 16:00–19:00
Place: Casa de la Juventud de Arrecife, Escuela de Arte Pancho Lasso, CIC El Almacén
Places: 12

Responsible for the Workshop

Salvi Vivancos es artista visual, historiador del arte y recuperador de cine de pequeño formato. Su proceso creativo se dirige hacia el cine experimental y expandido (8mm, Super-8 y 16mm) influenciado principalmente por la fotografía analógica, la memoria, el cine doméstico y el cine no narrativo. Como preservador de cine doméstico está al frente de los proyectos Memorias Celuloides y La Red del Cine Doméstico.

Ha impartido diversos talleres y charlas en lugares como los Festivales de Cartagena o Málaga, el Eye de Amsterdam, la Cineteca de México, la Cinemateca del MAM de Río de Janeiro o el Encuentro LEC de cine experimental en CDMX.

Description of the workshop

Bearing in mind the success and positive response to the course on Super8 held in 2016, this latest workshop, given by the visual artist Salvi Vivancos, consists in three three-hour practical sessions followed by a one-day presentation of the results of the workshop. The purpose of the course is to show people how Super8 works and to explain the history of this film format which was launched in 1965, targeted primarily at families, and which brought about a true revolution in domestic, amateur and experimental film production.

The participants in this workshop will be given an insight into the history of the Super8 format through practice exercises and will be given first-hand contact with basic cameras, they will learn to manually develop the films and to edit the resulting material to be viewed using original projectors from the time. The goal of the workshop is to enable an experience in which participants can get a hands-on knowledge of a film process that has remained constant from the invention of cinema in the nineteenth century until the recent generalization of digital formats.

This whole learning process will take place through the joint creation of a collective piece based on the concept of the (non-)language of home film.