The Wabi-Sabi in Super 8
• Workshop August 2008 Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, USA (www.echoparkfilmcenter.org)
1.
Youth Class - 2 weeks (6 Sessions 2 hours each, Monday, Wednesday, Friday)
2. Adult Class - 5 intensive hours: all
about Super 8, filming and b/w self processing! Partner workshop with
Paolo Davanzo
The Echo Park Film Center is a volunteer-run, non-profit media arts organization located in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. They provide equal and affordable access to film/video education and resources.
They invited me to be Artist In Residence for one month this summer: to live there, to film, to share inspiration and to teach!
My workshop included little theory, a lot of practice and many inspiring film examples. What's the magic about Super 8? What's the difference in contrast to video? How do the cameras work? And out we go into the park, ready to start filming, getting the feeling … real time filming, single frames, time lapse, the "poor man animation", the "magic B" and much more.
Luckily we are in Kodak-City and so we have the films processed over night and can watch our park film the very next meeting.
Next:
Animation day! Animate objects, fruit, yourselves. What about sound? We
set up a band spontaneously, used all instruments we could get hold of
in our surrounding and made the soundtrack for the upcoming films!
After the first three sessions the participants felt ready to take a camera
home over the weekend and start their own little film! The results were
amazing, wabi-sabi lingers everywhere, as long as you stretch out your
antennas and open eyes and ears you'll find precious pictures and little
stories everywhere in your surroundings. Super 8 has the magic to capture
them.
Next: what happens to the film once it's finished? Possibilities of telecine
and editing. In the end: party, showing & glowing!
