In Rooms is proud to host visiting artist / filmmaker / community organizer Steve Cossman of MONO NO AWARE for a weekend of traditional film making workshops. March 24th and 25th 2018
INTRO TO 16MM FILM-MAKING 1-day intensive workshop- Shoot, Process and Project!
Saturday March 24th from 11am-6pm at the InRooms Studio Darkroom in The Marigny, New Orleans
Participants of this workshop will be introduced to the art and craft of film making on 16mm black and white film. We'll cover the basic mechanics of motion picture production from head to toe with the intention of empowering you with all the necessary skills and knowledge to continue the practice on your own. In this intensive 3 workshops-in-one offering you'll learn to operate the Bolex camera, light-meter and lens in order to properly capture well exposed images, mix your own developer to process and reveal the latent image, then how to thread the projector to present your film properly. Working collectively we'll all assist one another so that everyone shoots 50' of film. $175-225 sliding scale. Includes all materials, chemistry, access to equipment, and a list of local resources. Limited to 8 participants.
NON-TOXIC PROCESSING IN BEER & COFFEE 1-day intensive workshop- Shoot & Process
Sunday March 25th from 12pm-6pm at the InRooms Studio Darkroom in The Marigny, New Orleans
Participants of this workshop will learn to process their film using a non-toxic developer made from household items; including coffee and beer! We'll cover the principles of developing silver gelatin photographs with a unique approach that combines the classic Caffenol formula with a contemporary processing soup made of dark brown ale. All formats are welcome from Super8mm to 16mm, 35mm still to medium format, come one and come all! Participants should arrive with exposed B/W film (either reversal to cross process or with negative stock or any brand or speed) Learn to mix your very own developer and reveal the latent image! $50-75 sliding scale. Includes chemistry, access to equipment, and a list of local resources. Limited to 12 participants.
To reserve your place in the workshop or to ask further questions please email : stevecossman@gmail.com
About Steve Cossman is founder and director of Mono No Aware; a nonprofit cinema arts organization whose annual festival exhibits the work of contemporary artists that incorporate live film projections and altered light as part of a performance, sculpture or installation. The festival's 10th anniversary presented the work of 150 international artists over 22 nights at 18 locations in New York to an audience of 4000. Year-round the organization operates a radical film school offering accessible analog film-making classes. MONO runs an affordable equipment rentals program and imports / distributes film stock to help support continued practice for local artists. MONO also presents an in-person screening series entitled Connectivity Through Cinema for artists and filmmakers passing through NYC. Steve’s first major work on film, TUSSLEMUSCLE, earned him Kodak’s Continued Excellence in Filmmaking award and has screened at many festivals and institutions internationally. He has completed residencies at MoMA PS1’s Expo 1 and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto. He has been a visiting artist at Duke University, Dartmouth, the New York Academy of Art, Yale, SAIC, and UPenn. Steve’s work on film, W H I T E C A B B A G E (2011-2014), a collaboration with Jahiliyya Fields of L.I.E.S., had its U.S. premiere at Anthology Film Archives and will travel with him to New Zealand and China this May (2018) on a screening-lectureship tour beginning at the Len Lye Center. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn as an artist, activist and adjunct professor of film at The Cooper Union.
About
Brittany Markert is an analog photographer, traditional darkroom printer, educator and curator based in New Orleans. Leaving behind a career in mathematics, Brittany moved to New York in 2012 and enrolled in the International Center of Photography's introductory course in traditional black and white printing. In 2014, after acquiring a Hasselblad, she began photographing her surreal diary series In Rooms, which is published every few years in volumes of limited edition photo books (Volume 2 is due out April 2018). In Rooms has been exhibited in the USA, France, Denmark, & Belgium including Brandts Museum, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Untitled Space (NY) & Stephen Romano Gallery (NY). Feldschuh Gallery compares her practice to the 'school of Francesca Woodman & Duane Michals'. Interviews about her artistic practice can be found in Sabat Magazine, CULTARTES, SHOTS & Seities Magazine to name a few. Her work is held in private collections in 20 countries across the globe. In 2017 Brittany broadened her focus to curating female identifying artists. Her curatorial debut, Catharsis, discussing mental health, our inner dialogue & Jungian's shadow work, was featured in the Gambit Newspaper.