The Art of Projection

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The film projector was designed to smooth out motion - to present images of the world as seamless. But in essence, the projector is an explosive instrument, sputtering out rapid-fire intervals of light. We want to share its possibilities with you as well as our experience of working with projectors as versatile instruments.

This is a hands-on workshop. We aim to take you through most of the following (not necessarily in this order):

• How a projector works - taking it apart. (btw we love Eiki projectors, have several of them, and so does not/nowhere!)
• Which parts of the projector tend to go wrong, and how to fix them.
• How to thread a 16mm projector and project a film.
• Possible ways of adjusting the image: lenses, focus, framing, screen shapes, filters, mirrors, and glass.
• Adjustments to the sound, volume, timbre, contact mics, loop pedals, mixing, multiple channels or speakers.
• Working with loops, in performance or gallery, bi-packing, projecting onto unusual surfaces and spaces, onto black, and projecting onto objects. (We supply materials to readily make loops - scraps of film, tools for working with image and optical sound).
• Working with more than one projector, projector movements, and visual mixing,
• Framing, masking, improvising, jamming.
• Working with musicians alongside projections, structuring a performance, and combining loops and linear projection. Projector noise.
• 16mm film installations in galleries and other spaces. The colour of the walls. Looping machines.

Prior knowledge of 16mm is useful but not necessary to participate in this workshop.