T.A.P.E. X Mono No Aware at Whammy!

In February of this year MONO NO AWARE visited from Brooklyn NYC to teach 10 moving image related film workshops! Founder Steve Cossman took a break from the nonprofit's regular year-round programming to join us and impart many different tactile and DIY filmmaking techniques for all participants. 

After a fun and free screening night where our participants were introduced to Mono's activities at their learning lab in Brooklyn, NY we embarked on a 10 day journey through many different film stocks, teachings around our gear, and community oriented styles of learning and guiding eachother through new information.

Our all volunteer staff learned so many different techniques and gained a very thorough understanding of the Bolex Rex cameras that our participants shot most of their workshop film on. 

Many different offerings were on the table for this week, including:

FULL COLOR FILM TO FILM WORKFLOW, shooting color negative film and working with a lab for processing work and answer prints.

16MM MACRO CINEMATOGRAPHY, shooting macro images on a Bolex camera without macro specific lenses.

35MM MOTION AS STILL FILM, bulk loading motion picture 35mm film into used still photography canisters for full-frame photography.

16MM COLOR PHOTOGRAMS, creating experimental images using objects and film images on color film.

TEST-IT-YOURSELF SUPER 8 CAMERA WORKSHOP, allowing participants to bring in their Super 8 cameras for a thorough function assessment.

DESKTOP PRINTER FILMMAKING ON 16MM CLEAR LEADER, learning special digital methods for creating frame based direct animation from video that then get printed directly onto film from table top laser printers.

COMPLETE DIY B&W FILM FLOW, learning how to operate the Bolex Rex camera, shooting b&w negative film, then how to edition one's work into prints in a DIY fashion.

16MM PHYTOGRAMS, using plant materials and non-toxic developer recipes for creating abstract moving images on film.

BRING YOUR OWN B&W NON-TOXIC PROCESSING PARTY AT 818 DARKROOM IN THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, a big accessible party that allowed you to bring your shot rolls of b&w films to then be processed in group-made non-toxic caffenol developers.

The week+ of workshops ended with a free to attend screening of all moving image work made during the workshops. This took place where most of our workshops happened - Whammy! Analog Media in the Echo Park/Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles. 

Everyone was encouraged to invite a loved one and especially anyone curious to see what 10 days of community oriented filmmaking can look like.

We all learned a lot and much fun was had!

Thank you to MONO NO AWARE for an unforgettable visit !

 

If you're ever in NYC, think of MONO NO AWARE as a great resource, and check to see if you can make an event or workshop!! You won't regret it.